Seniors and people with disabilities who receive Medicaid should have access to the home and community-based services that enable them to live with dignity and independence in their homes. Under Medicaid law, funding exists to give consumers the ability to receive necessary long-term services and supports without moving into a nursing home or other healthcare institution. We work at the federal and state level to help expand and preserve home and community-based funding for settings that are truly non-institutional, and provide assistance to state advocates to ensure that low-income seniors get the care they need in the setting they prefer.
Webinar: Implementing the HCBS Settings Rule: Protecting Consumers from Harmful Evictions, March 2, 2023
2023 Policy Priorities: Health & HCBS, January 4, 2023
Letter: Calling on Senate leaders to provide robust funding for HCBS, ongoing, May 2022
Letter: Justice in Aging’s statement on the Record for the Senate Aging Committee Hearing on the Importance of Home-Based Care, March 21, 2022
Letter: Justice in Aging Feedback on the HCBS Access Act, April 26, 2021
Issue Brief: California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program—An Equity Analysis, June 8, 2023
Issue Brief: An Equity Analysis of California’s Assisted Living Waiver, March 27, 2023
Issue Brief: Beyond Spending—Measuring California’s Progress Towards Equitable HCBS, August 25, 2022
Issue Brief: Using Data to Create a More Equitable Medi-Cal HCBS System, December 8, 2021
Fact Sheet: The HCBS Access Act, June 22, 2023
Issue Brief & Fact Sheet: An Equity Framework for Evaluating and Improving Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services & companion fact sheet, June 7, 2023
Issue Brief: The HCBS Settings Rule—A Guide for New Jersey Advocates, March 30, 2023
Issue Brief: Equity Framework for California’s HCBS Programs, December 6, 2022
Fact Sheet: Home and Community-Based Services Federal Legislative Update, November 16, 2022
Issue Brief: Beyond Spending—Measuring California’s Progress Towards Equitable HCBS, August 25, 2022
Issue Brief: Building an Equitable Medicaid HCBS Infrastructure in New Jersey for Older Adults, June 2022
Fact Sheet: Key Principles for Advocates When Talking About Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), February 2022
Fact Sheet: Investing in Medicaid HCBS is Good for Medicare, September 2021
Issue Brief: Medicaid’s Unfair Choice: Wait Months for In-Home Assistance—or Get Nursing Facility Coverage Today, September 2021
Fact Sheet: Why Older Adults Need Bold Investment in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services, July 2021
Primer: Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services for Older Adults with Disabilities April, 2021
Webinar: HCBS 101—Access to Home & Community-Based Care for Older Adults, March, 2021
Fact Sheet: Make the Medicaid Money Follows the Person Program Permanent, November 2022
Fact Sheet: Make the Expanded Spousal Impoverishment Protection Permanent, January, 2019
The opportunity to live with dignity, regardless of financial circumstances—free from the worry, harm, and injustice caused by lack of health care, food, or a safe place to sleep. By using the power of law to strengthen the social safety net, and remove the barriers low-income seniors face in trying to access the services they need, we work to ensure the future we all envision for our loved ones and ourselves.
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