As a result of decades of state and federal “tough on crime” and mass incarceration policies, about 2.3 million people are locked up in more “Issue Brief: Reducing Barriers to Reentry for Older Adults Leaving Incarceration”
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Issue Brief: Expanding Health Care Affordability for Older Adults and People with Disabilities
Medicaid provides health care coverage for 74 million people, including over 7.8 million older adults and people with disabilities who rely on the program for “Issue Brief: Expanding Health Care Affordability for Older Adults and People with Disabilities”
Issue Brief: States Are Weakening Training Standards for Nursing Facility Aides
Justice in Aging and the Center for Medicare Advocacy have jointly authored an issue brief, States are Weakening Training Standards for Nursing Facility Aides, With “Issue Brief: States Are Weakening Training Standards for Nursing Facility Aides”
Updated With New Information: 25 Common Nursing Home Problems & How to Resolve Them
Justice in Aging has updated its essential guide, 25 Common Nursing Home Problems—& How to Resolve Them. The revised guide includes new information on how “Updated With New Information: 25 Common Nursing Home Problems & How to Resolve Them”
Issue Brief: D-SNPs: What Advocates Need to Know
Almost three million individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (dual eligibles) are enrolled in Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs) and that enrollment is “Issue Brief: D-SNPs: What Advocates Need to Know”
Issue Brief: Using Data to Create a More Equitable Medi-Cal HCBS System
As California steps up efforts to improve access to Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) through Medi-Cal for older Californians and people with disabilities, it is “Issue Brief: Using Data to Create a More Equitable Medi-Cal HCBS System”
Issue Brief: Supporting the Health & Economic Security of Older Women of Color
Older women face significant challenges maintaining economic security as they age. Their economic security hinges on what they have available in both income and savings, “Issue Brief: Supporting the Health & Economic Security of Older Women of Color”
Issue Brief: Do you Think Older Renters on a Fixed Income Can’t get Help with Back Rent? Think Again!
Many older renters and others living on fixed incomes have fallen behind in their rent and utility payments during the pandemic, but don’t realize that “Issue Brief: Do you Think Older Renters on a Fixed Income Can’t get Help with Back Rent? Think Again!”
Issue Brief: Medicaid’s Unfair Choice: Wait Months for In-Home Assistance—or Get Nursing Facility Coverage Today
A new issue brief from Justice in Aging, Medicaid’s Unfair Choice: Wait Months for In-Home Assistance—or Get Nursing Facility Coverage Today outlines how federal policy “Issue Brief: Medicaid’s Unfair Choice: Wait Months for In-Home Assistance—or Get Nursing Facility Coverage Today”
The SSI Restoration Act of 2021
The Supplementary Security Income (SSI) Restoration Act of 2021 has been introduced in both the House and the Senate. The bill would improve the lives “The SSI Restoration Act of 2021”