The COVID-19 crisis has created numerous challenges for older adults and people with disabilities. As cases surge across the country, hospitals and health systems have “Free Webcast: Combatting Discriminatory Crisis Care Standards”
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Q&A on Changes to the Rules Implementing the Health Care Rights Law
Our new Q&A on Changes to the Rules Implementing the Health Care Rights Law provides background on the Health Care Rights Law (Section 1557 of “Q&A on Changes to the Rules Implementing the Health Care Rights Law”
Rethinking the COVID-19 Story: Are Our Elders Expendable?
Othering & Belonging Institute: Rethinking the COVID-19 Story: Are Our Elders Expendable?(August 5, 2020) In this powerful 10-minute video featuring our Executive Director, Kevin Prindiville, “Rethinking the COVID-19 Story: Are Our Elders Expendable?”
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”
Wheelchairs Prohibited in the Last Place You’d Expect
The New York Times: Wheelchairs Prohibited in the Last Place You’d Expect (April 30, 2018) A lawsuit was filed in New York against a number “Wheelchairs Prohibited in the Last Place You’d Expect”
Social Security Continues Discriminating Against Same Sex Married Couples By Making Them Pay Thousands of Dollars for Agency Mistake
Hugh Held and Orion Masters of Los Angeles, California have been together for more than 20 years. When marriage to a person of the same “Social Security Continues Discriminating Against Same Sex Married Couples By Making Them Pay Thousands of Dollars for Agency Mistake”