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Census 2020: All Hands On Deck!
During our 2019 Convention, last October, the Census New York Regional Director, Jeff T. Behler, addressed our membership. He spoke about the challenges this year’s Census, and, he described a variety of ways that we could be involved in order to maximize community...
NY StateWide Senior Acton Council Will Hold its Annual State Budget Briefing in two parts
NY StateWide Senior Action Council will hold it's annual state budget briefing in two parts. 1. Thursday January 30, at 10AM on the Governor's proposed budget for the NYS Office for Aging. 2. Thursday February 20, at 10AM on issues of concern to older residents in the...
Health-Aide Shortage Stirs Worry as Medicaid Budget Gap Looms
By Roshan Abraham | November 27, 2019 A shortage of home health aides across New York state raised concerns at an Assembly hearing on services provided for aging New Yorkers last week. The hearing arrived as a $15 million budget increase for aging services began...
Demand for home care workers on LI is outstripping supply
By Carol Polskycarol.polsky@newsday.com Updated July 30, 2019 9:53 AM Trina Tonorezos’ 71-year-old sister, bedridden from stage 4 cancer, recently wound up in a nursing home when she could not get approved for round-the-clock home care. She’d wanted to remain in her...
Census 2020: All Hands On Deck!
During our 2019 Convention, last October, the Census New York Regional Director, Jeff T. Behler, addressed our membership. He spoke about the challenges this year’s Census, and, he described a variety of ways that we could be involved in order to maximize community...
What To Do if Your Home Health Care Agency Ditches You?
https://khn.org/news/what-to-do-if-your-home-health-care-agency-ditches-you/