Like many older adults, Dorothy, the 72-year-old Chinese American in Seattle’s Chinatown, has had a tough year. She has been coping by mostly quarantining alone, “Centering Vaccination Planning on Equity: Intersecting Considerations of Age, Race, and More”
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Californians with Low Incomes Struggle to Navigate Both Medi-Cal and Medicare
One might think dual enrollment in Medicare and Medi-Cal should provide relief from health coverage worries, but many of the 1.4 million Californians with low “Californians with Low Incomes Struggle to Navigate Both Medi-Cal and Medicare”
A Call to Action: Elder Justice and the Movement to Defund the Police
“This blog post appeared originally on the American Society on Aging’s Generations Today online platform and is the first in a year-long collaboration between Justice in Aging “A Call to Action: Elder Justice and the Movement to Defund the Police”
Health Disparities Facing Older Adults of Color amid COVID-19
Guest Blog for NheLP: Health Disparities Facing Older Adults of Color amid COVID-19 (August, 24, 2020) The COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges for nearly all communities across the “Health Disparities Facing Older Adults of Color amid COVID-19”
Life at the Intersection: Older Adults Need a Response to COVID-19 Grounded in Equity
Dorothy is in good spirits, but tired and growing increasingly impatient. In January – well before life for most Americans had been dramatically disrupted by “Life at the Intersection: Older Adults Need a Response to COVID-19 Grounded in Equity”
Medicaid’s Built-in Solution to Protect People from Crushing Debt
Medicaid Retroactive Coverage: A Safeguard against Crushing Medical Debt & Key to Accessing Care Carol was hospitalized after an accident in August. Although she did “Medicaid’s Built-in Solution to Protect People from Crushing Debt”
Medicaid Work Requirement Red Tape Threatens Coverage for Family Caregivers
More and more states are moving to restrict Medicaid coverage by requiring low-income adults to report that they are working. In fact, the list of “Medicaid Work Requirement Red Tape Threatens Coverage for Family Caregivers”
Talking Taxes Over Turkey
This week marks an important milestone for my wife and me – our first time hosting Thanksgiving. We’ll be bringing together three generations of family: “Talking Taxes Over Turkey”
Unnatural Disaster: Seniors Hit Hardest in Floods and Fires
The heartbreaking stories from our recent spate of natural disasters just keep coming. The hurricanes in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the wildfires in Northern “Unnatural Disaster: Seniors Hit Hardest in Floods and Fires”
What Advocates for Older Adults Need to Know About the Budget Resolution
If you work with older adults (or have older adults in your life), you have a sense of what we all need as we age. “What Advocates for Older Adults Need to Know About the Budget Resolution”