California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that makes it easier for authorities to compel treatment for people with mental illness or addiction issues. apnews.com/article/californi…
Proud of the new 2023 LTSS State Scorecard which measures states’ #LTC systems using 5 components: Affordability and Access; Choice of Setting and Provider; Safety & Quality; Support for Family #Caregivers; Community Integration. #LTSSscorecardltsschoices.aarp.org/scoreca…
A few months in the making... & now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400 open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.…
🚨Recap: A VERY disappointing outcome. The @NIMHD committee admitted to NOT include anyone with a disclosed disability, yet made a significant decision on behalf of our community - they did not recommend the 'health disparity designation' be given to people with disabilities.
📢Disability community: Happening today! At 1:45 PM ET the @NIH@NIMHD Advisory Committee is giving updates from a working group considering designating people with disabilities as a 'health disparity population'. This has HUGE implications! nimhd.nih.gov/docs/advisory-…
Join our upcoming webinar to learn how to evaluate home and community-based care programs to ensure that they do not perpetuate inequities resulting from systemic racism, ageism, ableism, classism, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia.
Register: bit.ly/44EGu0K
ALT Text reads, "Webinar: Using an Equity Framework to Evaluate & Improve Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS. August 16, 2023 11:00 a.m. PT/2:00 p.m. ET"
Fourth in a series supported by @CHCFNews is our latest equity analysis on California’s In-home Supportive Services (IHSS) Program. We examine what aspects of the program either give rise to or can be used to address inequities. justiceinaging.org/issue-bri…
This week has been among the most horrifying in recent American legal history.
Some of us can feel swallowed up by that horror. Incapacitated by it. And I think that, for a little while, it’s okay.
If this sounds like you, here’s a bit from #CripNegativity that might be useful.
ALT Excerpt from Crip Negativity with one passage highlighted by a red rectangle. It reads, “Crip negativity does not oriented toward the future or toward justice or toward measurable material change, but it does allocate us a space-time to collectively more, and how much change is needed. We can’t change the world for the better until we allow ourselves to feel the depth of our grief. It is only from those deaths—dug further still from the multiplicative effect of crip negative communion—that we can even begin to know what change is needed. Crip negativity jars us loose from the world as we know it so that later on we can more conscientiously articulate the world as we want it.”
"What if I told you that in my Indigenous community, Diné (Navajo) ancestral teachings of disability are a relational concept that embodies a sophisticated value system of care? "
- Sandra Yellowhorse (IG @/the_yellow_sea_horse)
disabilityvisibilityproject.…
Congratulations to Dr. @AkreEllesse on receiving a Best of ARM award for her work to create measures that capture how well primary care practices adopt processes that improve care for LGBTQ , POC, and immigrant patients. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Canadian researchers, Drs. Tarzi, Mendoza @yonalunsky & @laurarstjohn surveyed families of people w intellectual & developmental #disabilities about their concerns for their family members in late 2020 & again in mid '22. Three consistent themes emerged. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
ALT An illustration of a family standing together is in the foreground of the image. Next to the family reads the text: Family caregivers of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities had 3 main concerns for their family members during COVID-19.
ALT Text reads: "They were concerned about the lack of professional support and resources." Next to the text is the family member with intellectual disabilities standing next to a mental health practitioner.
ALT Lack of programming. Next to the text is the family member with intellectual disabilities in a grocery store with a PCA.
ALT and experiences of loneliness. Next to the text is the family member with intellectual disabilities in his room by himself next to his unmade bed.
ALT Invitation for multi-interest group gathering at AcademyHealth to bring together those interested in health workforce, long-term services and supports, nursing, and rural health topics.
New Research: Applying an equity lens to assess context and implementation in public health and health services research and practice using the PRISM framework frontiersin.org/articles/10.…#HealthServices