Providers expressed frustration with the Department For The Aging (DFTA) and the mayor’s office, who they say made abrupt changes with little input from the aging services sector.
New enrollees in NYC’s home-delivered meals program for seniors are being diverted to the city’s emergency food program—which advocates say doesn’t deliver the same quality or support.
A series of far-reaching changes to NY state’s long-term care programs will limit enrollment in a program that is meant to give people with disabilities independence and which allows seniors…
Department for the Aging is being criticized by providers and some advocates for adding an array of new requirements to its program without additional funding.
The city uses a patchwork of social services and subsidies to keep elders aging in place, but they can be difficult to qualify for and their funds are limited.
It is unclear who is on the governor’s task force to redesign Medicaid (again), or exactly what is driving the cost spike that created a multibillion-dollar budget gap.
Responding to a budget gap driven largely by Medicaid costs, the governor and mayor are both proposing spending plans that ask more of or do less for seniors.