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Food Insecurity
Engage Magazine General Interest Spring 2020

Feeding Older Adults During Stay at Home

COVID-19 has made securing safe and nutritious food an issue for low-income older adults across the country, many of whom are in a high risk category due to underlying health issues. Those older adults without internet access or with limited English and technology skills may struggle to access adequate nutrition and navigate the burgeoning online Read More…

Message from LeadingAge CA President and CEO Jeannee Parker Martin
Engage Magazine General Interest Spring 2020

From the CEO – Spring 2020

by Jeannee Parker Martin, President and CEO, LeadingAge California COVID-19 has turned us upside down in so many ways. Working ‘with’ new rules, leniencies, funding sources, temporary guidelines, testing confusion, and hoping this will end sooner rather than later. We are also working ‘without’ sufficient PPE, without staff, and with uncertainties about the impact on Read More…

Keeping Residents Connected During COVID-19
Affordable Senior Housing Engage Magazine General Interest Spring 2020

Keeping Residents Connected During Crisis

Providers and affordable housing communities must be able to disseminate information to residents quickly and efficiently during a crisis, across multiple language needs and levels of comfort and access to technology. However, many low-income seniors don’t have broadband or mobile internet access, and this type of technology can be a lifeline during an emergency, keeping Read More…

Social Isolation Among Older Adults
Engage Magazine General Interest Spring 2020

Helping older adults through social isolation during COVID

In his Spring 2018 article in Engage Magazine, Institute on Aging’s Dr. Patrick Arbore described social isolation as a public health problem with damages compared in scale to cigarette smoking. With COVID-19 keeping seniors indoors and primarily homebound during stay-at-home, some older adults may be more impacted by the negative physical and emotional health effects Read More…

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National Day of Action for Aging Services

LeadingAge has successfully advocated for provisions and policies that directly help members maintain operations while providing the best care and services during the pandemic. Today, hundreds of LeadingAge staff, state executives and members from across the country would have descended on Washington D.C., for meetings with members of Congress as part of our annual Lobby Read More…

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DSS Releases PIN Revising Waivers Related to Workforce

On March 18th, DSS issued Provider Information Notice 20-08-ASC providing updated or additional statewide waivers for certain licensing requirements pertaining to Adult and Senior Care (ASC) licensees, particularly around workforce requirements. Updated PIN supersedes the previous PIN 20-07-ASC and include the following: Recommendations on the prevention, containment and mitigation measures for COVID-19, outlining responses to Read More…