by Diverse Elders | Jul 14, 2012
Authors: National Indian Council on Aging (NICOA), National Center on Elder Abuse This document draws from the findings in Elder Abuse in Indian Country: A Review of the Literature: Research, Policy, and Practice and supplements it with new knowledge yielded from a...
by Diverse Elders | Jul 13, 2012
This brief provides a succinct overview of the challenges that LGBT older adults face when attempting to access direct care services, and recommends concrete actions that lawmakers, administrators and direct care workers can take to effect permanent changes in public...
by Diverse Elders | Jul 13, 2012
Robert Espinoza, Senior Director of Public Policy and Communications at SAGE, discusses the importance of including LGBT older adults in the Older Americans Act in this article published in Aging Today, the bimonthly newspaper of the American Society on Aging. Visit...
by Diverse Elders | Jul 13, 2012
Established in 1965, the Older Americans Act (OAA) is the country’s leading vehicle for funding and delivering supportive services to older people in this country. OAA holds enormous potential for millions of LGBT older adults, a population with profound needs...
by Diverse Elders | Jul 13, 2012
As the nation’s primary health insurance program for low-income individuals, Medicaid serves as the single largest payer of long-term care in the United States. Medicaid qualification rules include a series of “spousal impoverishment protections” that aim to...
