Social care includes memorializing a person’s wishes for future care.
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Tune in to the Age-Friendly RI Radio Hour Podcast on:
“Making Your Own Health Care Plan”
On July 21, the Age-Friendly RI Radio Hour welcomed MLPB’s CEO Samantha Morton alongside Ellen DiPaola (President & CEO, Honoring Choices Massachusetts) to share information about health care planning in the Ocean State and beyond. Talk about the power of the pen!
Check out our new Bridging Divides blog post that dives into this conversation: On the Record? New Podcast Highlights Ease of Documenting One’s Care Planning Wishes.
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Federal Eviction Moratorium
Are you partnering with people confronting housing instability?
- The federal eviction moratorium has ended. Tenants and homeowners need to know their rights.
- Maximizing income is one pathway to explore:
- Some families are eligible for the new 2021 Child Tax Credit ($3,600 per child aged 0-5 or $3,000 per child aged 6-17)
- SNAP benefits have increased in both MA & RI for eligible recipients.
- Utility costs (and debt) can be reduced for some through a range of levers. For more detail, visit the MA, RI and federal sections of the Digital Digest
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Access to Justice, Civil Rights & Health
- From Crime to Care — On the Front Lines of Decarceration (The New England Journal of Medicine, July 24, 2021)
- Right to Counsel Movement Gains Traction (Shelterforce, July 16, 2021)
- The Tenets of Critical Race Theory Have a Long-Standing and Important Role in Population Health Science (The Milbank Quarterly, July 15, 2021)
Disparities, Equity & Social Health Integration
- United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 2 (The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, July 2021)
- Language is Not A Barrier — It Is An Opportunity To Improve Health Equity Through Education (Health Affairs Blog, July 30, 2021)
- Leveraging Evidence-Based Policies to Improve Health, Control Costs, and Create Health Equity (Trust for America’s Health, July 29, 2021)
- Health Equity and Value-Based Payment Systems: Moving Beyond Social Risk Adjustment (Health Affairs Blog, July 28, 2021)
- To Solve Health Care Inequity, Mass. Should Address the Social Determinants of Health (The Boston Globe, July 27, 2021)
- Americans with Disabilities Are a Health Disparity Population That Deserves Greater Attention and Resources (The Milbank Quarterly, July 23, 2021)
- Social Prescribing in National Health Service Primary Care: What Are the Ethical Considerations? (The Milbank Quarterly, June 25, 2021)
- Life Expectancy at the US-Mexico Border: Evidence of Disparities By Place, Race, and Ethnicity (Health Affairs, June 23, 2021) subscription required
Early Childhood & Health
- The Money Could Transform Their Lives. But Thousands of Eligible Kids May Not Get the New Child Tax Credit (Boston Globe, July 7, 2021)
- NOW Playbook: Transformative Community Capacity to Advance Equity (Vital Village Network, July 2021)
- Restoring An Inclusionary Safety Net for Children in Immigrant Families: A Review of Three Social Policies (Health Affairs, July 2021) free access
- California’s Health4All Kids Expansion and Health Insurance Coverage Among Low-Income Noncitizen Children (Health Affairs, July 2021) subscription required
- Health Insurance Access Among US Citizen Children in Mexico: National and Transborder Policy Implications (Health Affairs, July 2021) subscription required
- Noncitizen Children Face Higher Health Harms Compared With Their Siblings Who Have US Citizen Status (Health Affairs, July 2021) subscription required
Employment, Income Supports & Health
- US Sick Leave in Global Contexts: US Eligibility Rules Widen Inequalities Despite Readily Available Solutions (Health Affairs, July 26, 2021) subscription required
- Providence Is About To Give $500 A Month To 110 Low-Income Households (Boston Globe, July 13, 2021)
- Policymakers Should Expand and Simplify Supplemental Security Income (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, June 30, 2021)
Housing & Health
- Eviction Freeze Set to Lapse As Biden Housing Aid Effort Lags (The New York Times, July 31, 2021)
- Eviction Moratorium Expires as Renters Face Rising Covid Cases and Lack of Aid (The Washington Post, July 31, 2021)
- For Tenants Nationwide, A Scramble to Pay Months of Rent or Face Eviction (The New York Times, July 31, 2021)
- A 10-Point Plan to Increase Boston’s Affordable Housing Stock Quickly-And Inexpensively (The Boston Globe, July 27, 2021)
- Georgia County Tried to Help Everyone Facing Eviction. Now a Crisis Looms (NPR, July 23, 2021)
- How Philadelphia Plans to Beat the Looming Eviction Cliff (Bloomberg, July 21, 2021)
Immigration Status & Health
- From July 2021 edition of Health Affairs (subscription required):
- Chilling Effects: US Immigration Enforcement and Health Care Seeking Among Hispanic Adults
- A Content Analysis of US Sanctuary Immigration Policies: Implications for Research In Social Determinants of Health
- Health Policy Challenges Posed By Shifting Demographics And Health Trends Among Immigrants to the United States
- What Counts As ‘Safe?’: Exposure To Trauma and Violence Among Asylum Seekers from the Northern Triangle
- Immigrant Essential Workers Likely Avoided Medicaid and SNAP Because of a Change to the Public Charge Rule
Transportation & Health
- Public Transportation in the US: A Driver of Health and Equity (Health Affairs, July 29, 2021)
