Black older adults in the United States face significant disparities in health care access, income security, and housing due to systemic racism and lifelong inequities. These challenges lead to higher poverty rates and increased reliance on public benefits such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
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.
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.
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.
