Problems extracted from Community Pharmacist Workshop for Home Visiting Services

Early Childhood Home Visiting.

High-quality home-visiting services for infants and young children can improve family relationships, advance school readiness, reduce child maltreatment, improve maternal-infant health outcomes, and increase family economic self-sufficiency. The American Academy of Pediatrics supports unwavering federal funding of state home-visiting initiatives, the expansion of evidence-based programs, and a ...

Home visiting and the family-centered medical home: synergistic services to promote child health.

From the Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass (Dr Toomey); and Department of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (Dr Cheng) Address correspondence to Sara L. Toomey, MD, MPhil, MPH, MSc, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: sara.toomey@childrens....

Consumer-Directed Home and Community Services

Home and Community-Based Services Waivers

The history and current status of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waiver Program are presented. The article discusses the States' role in developing and implementing creative alternatives to institutional care for individuals who are Medicaid eligible. Also described are services that may be provided under the waiver program and populations served.

Evidence-based mental health services for home and community.

The articles elsewhere in this issue describe the large evidence base of effective treatments for the mental health problems commonly experienced by older adults. However, despite the availability of pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions with demonstrated efficacy in geriatric patients, mental illness remains undertreated in older adults [1]. As many as one half of older adults with...