Coalitions between aging and disability

Follow the word count requirement for this response. Research a news article from in-print sources, online information, TV, podcasts, or films. Discuss how the issue or news item applies to your readings for this assignment. For example, you may find an article about an older person being unable to find adequate housing, a person with a disability who cannot access health insurance, lack of community resources, or a new coalition addressing services for older persons being formed in your state. Your comments may be posted on the course news page as well. Include the name or link of the website you used. Excellent resources are the New York Times, Minnesota Public Radio, and The Washington Post. Other organizations and coalitions can be searched and you can sign up to be on their listservs. In addition, you can search the web resources and browse journals in the library. This is an excellent activity to help increase your awareness of current issues and trends. A section in my text book Coalitions between aging and disability interest a potential vehicle to promote community care for older people The chapter explores the prospects for aging organizations to join in coalitions with disability groups with the goal of making high-quality user-friendly home and community-based services (HCBS) Available to older people with disabilities. The last few decades has been characterized by highly energetic, increasingly well organized, and often effective advocacy to change the nature of the care and services available to children and adults with disabilities. Yet organizations of older people or those purporting to speak on behalf of older people have typically held a low profile and In such Efforts. Insufficient attention has been given to determining why older people are less involved and cross- disability coalitions directed At transforming long-term support services, and to considering a common agenda that would be desirable from the perspective of older people. Conscious reflection of what seniors and senior organizations interested in transformation of long-term-care may Gain or lose From active coalition with disability groups seems overdue. The building blocks for aging and disability coalition will either be some combination of existing aging organizations or new organizations of and for older people form with long-term-care and Disability in mind. The landscape of organizations representing aging in the United States in 2006 is the result of an over ever-changing kaleidoscope of service organizations, trade associations, professional societies, and advocacy groups. Organizations concerned with long-term care for older people with disabilities comprise a much smaller subset of these groups and rarely is long-term care that exclusive or even primary focus of the organization. The existing panoply Of aging organizations provide the context in which to examine whether and which aging organizations are likely to join coalitions with disability organizations, and the likely benefits of the collaboration.