Next Avenue has published an article by Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, on "If You See Something, Say Something: A Caregiver's Role in Keeping Older Adults Safe."
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Many of the pandemic-era policies that benefited people with disabilities are set to expire and the implications could be significant, advocates say, touching everything from health care to home and community-based services.
After more than three years, the Biden administration let the public health emergency spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic end this week. The change in status will alter the availability of testing, vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus. It will also impact disability services in ways that have little to do with COVID-19 itself.
Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to combatting COVID-19, we are now in a better place in our response than at any point of the pandemic. One of the critical components of our response has been ensuring all Americans have easy access to COVID-19 vaccines free of charge. Over the last two years, the Biden-Harris Administration has effectively implemented the largest adult vaccination program in U.S. history, with nearly 700 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines given to 270 million Americans.
Submit a public comment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), encouraging the agency to adopt two new age-friendly geriatrics hospital measures.
