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State Budget Squeezes Long-Term Care Programs

Office of the Governor Advocates were critical from the beginning of the governor's rushed Medicaid redesign timeframe, which left only eight weeks to decide upon the largest changes to the state’s Medicaid program in a decade. A series of far-reaching changes to New York 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 to age at home.
Opinion: Social Adult Day Care is Prepping to Move Online

City Limits COVID- 19 is a perfect storm for the elderly and chronically ill, who reportedly are most affected by the disease. The CDC reports that eight out of 10 deaths in the U.S. have been in adults 65 years and older.
Nursing Home Lockdown Creates Unique Problems for Seniors and Families

Adi TalwarJordan Moss' father is in an assisted living facility in Yonkers where visitors are also no longer allowed. Yolanda Czerech’s voice trembled when she spoke about not being able to see her grandmother.
Opinion: Social Distancing Saves Lives, but only if it’s Socially Responsible

Icons by DOHMH; Graphic by City Limits I (Ruth) am 65 and I look it. In the past few days, I’ve noticed people darting away from me as I run errands to start social distancing at home: shopping for groceries, refilling my prescriptions, buying books. I saw an anxious mother shoo her toddlers away from “an elderly” as I walked by.
Senior Centers Scramble to Aid Clients Amid Coronavirus Shutdown

Lunch at the Korean Community Services Flushing Neighborhood Senior Center in Queens in October, 2019. Many centers were already planning to shift to home-delivered meals because of the Coronavirus when the mayor imposed that change over the weekend.
High Risk Seen in City’s Proposed System for Feeding Seniors

theilr Advocates for NYC’s seniors have long complained that the city’s funding for meals has been lacking. The Department for the Aging, which is now seeking vendors for its home-delivered meal program, is now being criticized by providers and some advocates for adding an array of new requirements to its program without additional funding.
Many NYC Seniors Still Face the Threat of Evictions

Florina and her husband are Bronx residents on rent strike and facing a rent increase they cannot afford, even with the help of adult children who still live with them. Florina, 62, and her husband, who is 63, haven’t paid rent on their rent-regulated Bronx apartment in months.
Opinion: NY Must Invest in its Home-Care Workers

PHIA 2015 training for home-care workers. New York State is changing.