This issue brief introduces legal and aging advocates to the health and economic challenges faced by nearly one million American Indian and Alaska Native people over the age of 65.
Learn about the impact of housing discrimination on older adults with criminal records and how the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) protects their rights.
This issue brief analyzes data about the employment, incomes, and health of older women of color and highlights policy solutions that are targeted to support them.
Justice in Aging used its equity framework to analyze California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program, the state’s largest Medi-Cal home and community-based services program.
Justice in Aging developed an HCBS Equity Framework to support policymakers, payers, providers, advocates, and consumers in making equity a primary focus at every stage of HCBS program design and implementation.
This issue brief examines the privacy and discrimination concerns of low-income older adults in managed care, particularly those who rely on health aides and other providers for their most intimate needs.
This issue brief equips New Jersey's aging and disability advocates with information to ensure ongoing compliance and implementation of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rule.
Nursing facility residents for decades have been medicated with antipsychotics and other psychotropics in order to sedate them and make them more easily managed. But these medications can impair quality of life and increase the risk of death. Reform initiatives have had limited success. Notably, even reform initiatives virtually ignore residents’ decision-making rights, assuming implicitly […]
