by Robert Espinoza | Feb 20, 2018
As a long-term care advocate, the most common question I get from friends is about access. A friend needs home care for his father with dementia, but he doesn’t know where to start or whether he can afford it. Another friend who has begun applying for Medicaid for her...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 28, 2017
by Clarissa Durán, Program Manager for the Rio Arriba County – Northern NM BEC. This article originally appeared on the website of the National Council on Aging (NCOA). The Northern New Mexico Benefits Enrollment Center (NNM BEC) is a partnership of entities in North...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 17, 2017
By Debra Utacia Krol, High Country News Dennis and Betty Smartt live in a neatly painted white-and-blue home on the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Reservation, on the Nevada-Oregon border. They’ve spent their entire lives here, in this small tribal community of...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 7, 2017
This story by Kaiser Health News senior national correspondent Sarah Varney aired Nov. 24, 2017, on Here & Now. Angelia Soloman watched out the window of her ranch house in northeastern Houston as the floodwaters rose up to the windowsills. She huddled inside with...
by Diverse Elders | Oct 29, 2017
by Tracey Gronniger. This post originally appeared on the Justice in Aging blog. If you work with older adults (or have older adults in your life), you have a sense of what we all need as we age. The burden of high health care and housing costs on low-income seniors...
