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Live Oak Re-Envisions   The System 

The system of support, services and care for elders and people with disabilities is one whole integrated, interactive system in which actions, or failure to act, in one part of the system will have consequences in other parts.

Live Oak Re-Envisions   The Person 

The culture of the system is grounded in empowering communities that support each person’s autonomy. It assists each person to achieve their individual goals as well as a meaningful life physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and socially and is appropriate to the cultural and religious needs of each individual.

Live Oak Re-Envisions   The Careforce 

Each person providing support, services and care, whether a direct caregiver or a licensed professional, shall have pay equity with those providing similar services in the highest paid settings.

Live Oak Re-Envisions  Housing 

Short-term or long-term care settings shall be a home designed to be accessible with private rooms, private bathrooms, natural and good lighting and plenty of common space, good air circulation, and access to outdoors.​

Live Oak Re-Envisions   Regulation

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The system of regulation shall be based in collaboration and learning, fostering innovation, and support those providers who engage in and sustain quality person-directed care. At the same time, the regulatory system shall enforce meaningful consequences for chronic poor performers.

Live Oak Re-Envisions  Reimbursement

Medicaid, Medicare, and third-party payers need to be transformed so that individuals and families do not need to become impoverished to qualify for care, and providers are reimbursed properly for reasonable costs of person-directed care.

Live Oak Re-Envisions   Innovation 

Through tax incentives, direct reimbursement, legislation and other means, federal and state governments shall financially support new and adapted models of care such as small houses and households, and innovative community services, subscribing to the full realization of these Pillars of Transformation.

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