Sacramento Observer: California’s Master Plan for Aging: Creating Equitable Systems of Care (August 24, 2022)
The recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that during the pandemic, life expectancy for Black, Latinx and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Californians declined significantly due to systemic racism that has perpetuated disparities for generations. The time to create systems of care that advance equity and are accessible to all, especially those communities who have faced longstanding structural racism, is now.
