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January 22, 2025
January 9, 2025
The blog provides an overview of four new Medicaid demonstration waivers that were issued last year to allow Medicaid beneficiaries in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Oregon to receive traditional health care services.
January 9, 2025
This issue brief in the two part series discusses the benefits available to tribal elders through the Older Americans Act (OAA), the coordination opportunities of OAA-funded services between states and tribes, and the barriers and cultural factors that advocates should be aware of when supporting tribal elders in accessing these services.
December 9, 2024
This webinar took place on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT/2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. Although great strides have been made to reform guardianship systems across the country, those reforms have largely overlooked issues relating to equity. Older adults who are members of marginalized communities may well be at […]
November 19, 2024
Looking ahead to the next Administration and Congress, the programs older adults rely on will be at the crux of policy debates and discussions. Older adults and their advocates must be ready to engage so that any decisions that are made are helping us to build the future for aging that we envision. Justice in […]
November 18, 2024
November marks Native American Heritage Month, an important opportunity to honor, celebrate and acknowledge the contributions and resiliency of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Hawaiian Native communities. This month is also an opportunity to learn about and address the barriers that tribal elders continue to face, such as access to critical health services and economic […]
April 12, 2024
“Hold the button and count slowly to ten,” I ordered, sternly but kindly, leaning into her right ear. At 90 years old, Grandma was almost completely hard of hearing in her left ear. She nodded and firmly pressed the life alert. We were practicing in case she needed help. Despite robust Medicaid home and community-based […]
February 29, 2024
Guardianship can strip an older adult of their autonomy and should be a mechanism of last resort. This issue brief examines the guardianship system and offers recommendations to reform the system to promote equity in aging.
January 29, 2024
Justice in Aging has created the Justice in Aging Data for Equity Fellowship in order to enhance our ability to use data to strengthen our policy analysis and advocacy in ways that advance equity. This innovative partnership with the Gerontology Institute’s LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston will provide annual support to a UMass Boston gerontology […]
December 20, 2023
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.
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