Ticket to Work and Healthcare: Incentivizing Employment with Medicaid and Medicare Fri, 10/28/2016 - 12:00 Annette Shea, Administration for Community Living Program Specialist In 1999 Congress passed groundbreaking legislation which broke down barriers to …
EJCC News: Opioids and Other Elder Justice Challenges Wed, 06/06/2018 - 12:00 Dr. Laura Mosqueda, Director of the National Center on Elder Abuse and Dean of the Keck School of Medicine at USC, describes how the opioid crisis is impacting older adults and …
Issue Briefings and Other Reading ACL Issue Briefings Each issue briefing discusses a particular issue affecting older adults or people with disabilities. Many include information about evidence-based programs that could address the challenge and provide …
Glossary Accelerated Death Benefit A life insurance policy feature that lets you use some of the policy's death benefit prior to death. Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) Basic actions that independently functioning individuals perform on a daily basis: …
Just in time for Older Americans Month: 2020 Profile of Older Americans Thu, 05/27/2021 - 12:00 Each year during Older Americans Month , we celebrate the vital contributions of the older adults whose knowledge, expertise, and talents make our communities …
Medicaid Renewals and Other Policy Changes due to the end of COVID-19 Flexibilities Return to ACL's COVID-19 page The federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) and Major Disaster Declaration (MDD) for COVID-19 ended on May 11, 2023, and federally funded …
ACL Policy Round Up: Public charge rule, vaccine guidance, more Wed, 09/01/2021 - 12:00 In this Policy Round Up, we’re bringing you: Input needed: New public charge rule New CMS vaccination guidance for ICF/IIDs Update to SSA policy: Exclusion of COVID …
History of the DD Act The purpose of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (DD Act) , [1] as described in the current law, is to “assure that individuals with developmental disabilities and their families participate in …
Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of ACL and the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease Tue, 05/31/2022 - 12:00 by Alison Barkoff, Former Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging; and Tisamarie Sherry, Former ASPE Deputy Assistant …
Center for Innovation and Partnership (CIP) About the Center for Innovation and Partnership (CIP) Kelly Cronin, Deputy Administrator Caroline Ryan, Deputy Director The Center for Innovation and Partnership (CIP) serves as the locus within ACL for the …
