Publications
The Kansas Department on Aging is pleased to be able to offer our publications on-line, as well as having an on-line request form for publications. Feel free to print any of the on-line publications or to use our online form to request any of our other publications.
Comprehensive Guides
- A Guide for Alzheimer's
Disease and Related Disorders
- Kansas
Caregiver Guide
Updated June 2009
- Division of Assets:
Questions & Answers on Spousal Impoverishment
Updated May 2009
- Explore
Your Options: A Kansas Guide to Information and In-Home Services. -
2009-2010 Edition
- A Mental Health Guide For Older Kansans And Their Families
Updated Winter 2008
- Resource
Guide for Seniors: Useful information on Legal Issues, Benefits, Rights
and Services
Updated October 2009
Food Resources
Home and Community Based Services
- Home and Community Based
Services for the Frail Elderly
Updated June 2009 - Home and Community Based Services for the Frail Elderly: Your
Rights and Responsibilities When you Choose to Self-Direct Your Care
Updated September 2008 - Oral Health Services - * Service is suspended indefinitely unless crisis exception is met.
- Oral Health Services (en español) - * El servicio ha sido suspendido indefinidamente a menos que la excepción de crisis se cumpla.
- Targeted Case Management for Home and Community Based Services for the Frail Elderly
Updated April 2009
Long Term Care
- The Basics of Housing Options Fact Sheet
- How Do I Pay for My Nursing Home Care?
- How to Select a Special Care Unit - A Consumer's Guide to Special Care Units for Persons with Dementia
- Kansas Nursing Home Care For
Medicaid Residents: SERVICES & SUPPLIES What's Covered, What's not?
Updated December 2008 - Long Term Care Basics Fact Sheet
Prescription Coverage
- Basic Medicare Coverage
- Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
- Need Extra Help paying for your Prescription Drugs?
- Prescription Drug Cost Assistance Programs
Transitioning
- Client Assessment, Referral and Evaluation Program (CARE)
- Client Assessment, Referral and Evaluation Program (CARE en español)
Other
- Emergency Preparedness for Older Adults
- Financial Assistance Programs Fact Sheet
- Freedom of Information: Request for Public Records
- Older Drivers Fact Sheet
- Seniors Together Enjoy Physical Success
- SHICK Volunteer Opportunities
- Plan for Your Long Term Care Needs
- Advanced Directives
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Guardianships and Conservatorships
- Home and Community Based Services
- Medicare
- Nursing Facilities
- Wills and other important papers
You can order the following publications from KDOA by using the on-line request form. The order page includes a description of the topics covered in each publication.
- Explore Your Options : A Kansas Guide to Services and Long Term Care Choices
- A Guide for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
- How to Select a Special Care Unit
- Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home (CMS)
- The Medicare Handbook 2008 (CMS) - Medicare and You
- Facts about the Qualifying Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Program
- Supplemental Insurance Guide (Kansas Insurance Department)
- End-of-Life Wall Chart
- Stroke Wall Chart
- Mental Health Wall Chart
- Mental Health Bookmarks
The online order form includes descriptions of these publications.
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Kansas Department on Aging Strategic Plan
Our Strategic Plan is under review and will be updated.
- Kansas Senior Press Services
These stories come both from senior adults, writing as laymen to a peer audience, and from healthcare professionals and other experts educating older adults and their caretakers.
- A Guide to Legal Issues in Life-Limiting Conditions
This is a Legal Guide to Life-Limiting Conditions released by The American Health Lawyers Association as part of their Public Information Series. The Guide provides an overview of the key legal and practical issues that arise in the care of individuals who face a life-limiting condition or who care for a loved one with a life-limiting condition. As an aid to the planning process, the Guide is organized around the continuum of care, beginning with healthy individuals who are able to live at home and following the continuum to independent retirement communities, assisted living, long term care, and an eventual return to the home with the aid of hospice services.
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