May is Older Americans Month, and this year’s theme is Engage at Every Age. NCOA is committed to helping every American age well. Here are six ways you can engage with NCOA to improve your life or the life of an older adult you know. Please share!
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May is Older Americans Month, but the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans are putting a serious damper on the celebration. Yes, candidate Trump promised not to touch Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
But his administration has been actively undermining those pledges. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney — who once called Social Security a Ponzi scheme — questioned the legitimacy of Social Security Disability Insurance — and wouldn’t promise a Presidential veto of legislation to privatize Medicare (a pet project of House Speaker Paul Ryan).
President Trump champions the GOP’s American Health Care Act, which guts
Medicaid, undermines the solvency of Medicare, and allows insurers to
charge older Americans up to five times as much as people in their 20s.
More on this issue here via The Hill.
So this time of year there are a lot of lunches and other activities to honor old people and I think we should take a day here at TGB to celebrate ourselves too.
We should do that for one day because during all the other 364, the universal doctrine that getting old is the the worst thing that can happen to anyone is what prevails.
via Time Goes By.
More About the Older Americans Act:
It’s (Past) Time to Reauthorize the Older Americans Act.
A6: #MealsonWheels is serving 21M fewer meals today than in 2005. #WeAreOAA
via Meals on Wheels.
Related Reading:
- Celebrating Older Americans Month.
- From Meals on Wheels to senior centers, prevention of physical and financial abuse, computer training to legal assistance, OAA programs touch the lives of millions of seniors and their families.
- More on the Older Americans Act.
President Kennedy’s proclamation stated, “All persons reaching their later years should… share fully in the benefits of our advances in economic wealth, science, and culture…”
Tell us YOUR thoughts (leave us a comment) about seniors in our society this Older Americans Month.
Chances are if you, or anyone in your family, is 65 or older your life has been impacted by an Older Americans Act program. From Meals on Wheels to senior centers, prevention of physical and financial abuse, computer training to legal assistance, OAA programs touch the lives of millions of seniors and their families.
via Entitled to Know.
Read more here.
The Older Americans Act authorizes a range of services and supports that help older Americans remain as independent and productive as possible in their own homes and communities.
via NCPSSM.
A7: #OAA provides seniors w/ meals & social visits. #WeAreOAA
via Meals on Wheels.
Related Reading:
- Who Benefits from the Older Americans Act?
- The intent of the OAA is to promote the dignity of older adults by
providing services and supports that enable them to remain independent
and engaged citizens within their communities.
92.0 million: Projected population of people 65 and older in 206 0. People in this age group would comprise just over one in five U.S. residents at that time. Of this number, 18.2 million would be 85 or older.
via Census.gov for Older Americans Month. (For more information about Older Americans Month or Re-authorizing the Older Americans Act, please watch this video)
Trump & Congress give Older Americans fewer reasons to celebrate this month. National Committee President Max Richtman explains why Older Americans Month is a time for concern this year.
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure becomes the first black woman to lead the agency that oversees #Medicare and #Medicaid. She is a major improvement over President Trump’s CMS administrator, who undermined Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/politics/chiquita-brooks-lasure-medicare-medicaid.html @CMSGov