Since launching our Strategic Initiative to Advance Equity in Aging in 2021, we’ve been busy building tools to help us analyze policies and provide recommendations to policymakers and agencies that will target more resources to low-income older adults who have faced discrimination, and, as a result, are underserved by safety net programs. This year, we developed a new Equity Framework for Evaluating and Improving Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). Using this framework, we have examined various HCBS programs and policies and released issue briefs and other materials to help advocates and policymakers create and enact changes to make HCBS programs and policies more equitable. This work was featured at the first-ever CMS Equity Conference earlier this year and has been adopted by the Community Living Equity Center to inform the work of the Center to address knowledge gaps about inequities in community living faced by disabled people of color. Justice in Aging is committed to making HCBS more equitably available so that all low-income older adults have the option to receive quality care at home and in their communities. Please reach out to us if you’re interested in learning more or would like support in using the Framework to evaluate HCBS programs and policies in your state. | |
A list of resources using the framework: National Analysis State Analyses | |
