by Diverse Elders | Oct 17, 2022
By Didier Trinh, Diverse Elders Coalition’s Advocacy Director. Under the Obama Administration, the original text of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (also known as the Health Care Rights Law, or HCRL) was interpreted to protect individuals from...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 6, 2020
by Denny Chan. This article originally appeared on the Justice in Aging blog. Dorothy is in good spirits, but tired and growing increasingly impatient. In January – well before life for most Americans had been dramatically disrupted by COVID-19 with stay at home...
by Diverse Elders | Feb 28, 2019
by Dr. Marcy Adelman. This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times. California Governor Gavin Newsom in his State of the State address on February 12 spoke to the issue of the aging of the state’s population. “We need to get ready.… For the...
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...
by Diverse Elders | Aug 30, 2017
by Natalie Kean. This post originally appeared on the Justice in Aging blog. Among its many achievements, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made great strides in covering more older adults who previously had no access to health care. Before the ACA, many low-income...
