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Stay tuned for the September 2025 LTSS webinar
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Toolkit to address wandering
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The International Association for Indigenous Aging now offers a toolkit, Creating a Tribal Elder Safety Net to Address Wandering Persons, to help decrease the number of American Indian and Alaska Native elders with dementia who become lost or go missing.
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The toolkit shares tips for conducting safe searches, a practice exercise, and information on what to do following a search.
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Two main features of the toolkit are the Community Response Plan Workbook and the Quick Reference Guide. When people complete the workbook on a computer, the guide is filled in automatically with at-a-glance information on:
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- Search coordinators and contacts
- Search areas and potential hazards
- Available communication options
- A missing person flyer
- Elder details
- Family preferences
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Visit the LTSS TA Center and watch a series of seven videos on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, available on the LTSS and Dementia page, under the heading Resources.
The series features work by the International Association for Indigenous Aging to:
- Address the need for culturally appropriate dementia resources
- Help people recognize the early signs of dementia
- Highlight the challenges of providing care for loved ones with dementia
- Support the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe's Wandering Project
- Educate communities about dementia and healthy cognitive aging
- Spur creation of tribal laws and policies related to dementia
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Transportation resources
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Safe, accessible transportation helps elders and people with disabilities stay connected to health care and other essential services.
However, understanding the range of transportation options available in one’s community and knowing what questions to ask can be challenging. To address these challenges, the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center website offers two resources:
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Helping couples grow old apart
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An elder's move to long-term care can be a difficult transition for aging couples who assumed they would live together for the rest of their lives.
To help support people and their partners through this transition, an article in Caring for the Ages recommends that care facility staff:
- Ask the resident for suggestions on how to support them and their partner emotionally
- Help the visiting partner feel like they are part of the resident's new community
- Encourage the couple to spend time together recalling funny and sweet stories from their past
- Remember each couple's relationship is unique
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Hot weather safety for elders
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Staying Safe in Hot Weather, an infographic on the National Institute on Aging (NIA) website, highlights signs of hyperthermia—the medical term for an abnormally high body temperature—and offers tips to prevent hot-weather illness.
Signs of hyperthermia include dizziness, muscle cramps, swelling in one’s ankles and feet, nausea and weakness, and rapid pulse. To help prevent hot-weather illness, NIA recommends drinking non-caffeinated and nonalcoholic liquids, wearing light-colored and loose clothing, and exercising indoors when it's too hot outside.
Visit NIA’s website to learn more about hot weather safety for elders.
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Join the conversation on LinkedIn
Want to learn more about or discuss LTSS in Indian Country? Looking to connect with others working in the same field?
Join the Tribal Affairs Group on LinkedIn.
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Stay tuned for the September LTSS webinar
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There will be no LTSS webinar in August. Check back soon for more information about the September webinar.
In the meantime, visit the LTSS TA Center to view archived LTSS webinars, such as:
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Long-distance caregiving
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In an animated video, Six Tips for Long-Distance Caregiving, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) shares how friends and relatives can serve as caregivers for people who live far away. The tips include:
- Learning about the care recipient's health and treatments and what caregiver resources are available in their area
- Helping organize the care recipient's important paperwork so it's easy to find and update
- Securing legal permission to receive the care recipient's medical and financial information
- Planning ahead for in-person visits that allow time for simple, relaxing activities
- Scheduling calls with the health care team to discuss the care recipient's well-being
- Considering caregiver training and seeing whether CMS will cover the costs
Review NIA's worksheets for more information to help caregivers support care recipients’ activities of daily living.
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Heathy Alaska Natives Foundation grants
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Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
View the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation funding opportunity
The Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation—the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s charitable arm—offers grants for projects that directly impact Alaska Native people, programs, or places. Preference is given to projects focused on:
- Improved access to care
- Rural health care
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NADRC webinar
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August 25 at 3 p.m. Eastern
Register for the NADRC webinar
Join the National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center (NADRC) for a webinar on how to adapt the Respite for All (RFA) faith-based model for community-based environments. RFA is an innovative model for dementia care that takes a person-centered, strength-based approach to foster engagement, creativity, resilience, and belonging.
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American Indian Elders Conference
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September 29–October 3
Durant, Oklahoma
Register for the American Indian Elders Conference
The National Indian Council on Aging, Inc., holds the American Indian Elders Conference every 2 years as a forum to discuss aging services across Indian Country. The conference is an opportunity for attendees to raise concerns and make policy recommendations that help elders age in place.
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Send us your news
Do you have news to share about LTSS in Indian Country? Send it to LTSSinfo@kauffmaninc.com for possible inclusion in an upcoming newsletter. Contact us with other comments or feedback, too.
About the newsletter
American Indian/Alaska Native Long-Term Services and Supports Solutions is published monthly by the CMS Division of Tribal Affairs to share information, funding opportunities, and resources with LTSS planners, tribal leaders, and supporters.
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