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Health

This page offers information about taking a more active role in your health care, finding adult health care services, and finding options for health care financing (health insurance) as you begin to reach adulthood.

Health Care: Articles and Tools

• Transitions-Changing Roles for Families and Youth
  This document provides a checklist called "Health & Wellness 101: The Basics". Families and youth can use the checklist to find out if the youth is ready to do tasks, needs to learn tasks, or needs help with the tasks like ordering prescriptions, understanding his or her condition and symptoms, and working medical equipment. This form is from Healthy and Ready to Work, a very useful site with many forms, checklists, surveys and other things for youth, families, and providers.
• Talking With Your Doctor
  This video (for young adults by young aduts) will help you learn how to communicate with your doctor and other health care providers so you can get the information and support you need to be successful.
• Transitions for Children and Youth: How Occupational Therapy Can Help
  The role of OTs in transition for children and youth from the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.

Adult Health Care: Services

• Services on the Medical Home Portal
  As youth become young adults, they will need to transition from pediatric medical providers to adult health care providers such as family practice physicians, internists, and gynecologists. To find these providers that serve individuals with special health care needs, scroll down the Serivces list to "Healthcare, Medical" and see "Adult Care Physicians."

Health Care Finance

• Utah Services
• Medicaid
  Utah Medicaid's official website. Once a child is 18 years of age, s/he is eligible for medicaid independent of the family income.
• Social Security Administration
  Provides Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for individuals with disabilities. At the bottom of the web page, there is a box to enter your zip code and search for the nearest Social Security Office.
• National Services
• GovBenefits
  Free, confidential tool that helps you find government benefits that children and families may be eligible to receive.
• Medicaid
  Official U.S. government site for Medicaid services.
• Medicare
  Official U.S. government site for Medicare services.
• Social Security Administration
  Provides Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for individuals with disabilities.
• National Articles and Tools
• A Consumer's Guide to Getting and Keeping Health Insurance
  Georgetown University Health Policy Institute provides a Consumer Guide that explains health insurance issues to consumers; describes various public insurance plans; describes protections; and provides a list of terms and acronyms.

Thank you to the BLT Project for reviewing and improving these pages.

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