Elder Health
Congress needs to act now and fund Medicaid home and community based services!
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As someone who lost the use of her legs, FHJP Client Alene Shaheed, an independent retiree, relies on Medicaid home health aides. In this video she shares how days at a time go by without any aides due to terrible underfunding and lack of pay for Medicaid home health care workers. People like Alene, and the front line healthcare workers who take care of them, need Congress to provide increased resources for the program. |
story sharing and Advocacy
Representing HCBS clients and families needing help on appeals
Haydee and Barbara When you’re a caregiver, business owner and part-time teacher, 24 hours a day is never enough.. Read more |
Diwantie When her 87-year-old mother, Mankuar, fractured her back, it fell upon her daughter Diwantie to pick up the pieces, becoming her mother’s voice and caretaker through the travails of hospital and rehabilitation center visits. Read more |
Thelma & Hortense Thelma quit a good job to care for her elderly mother, Hortense, who needs care 24/7. Although the pay for being her mom’s full time care giver was only $10.76 an hour, the Medicaid managed care plan said she would be paid for 41 hours/week. Instead, the plan keeps cutting Thelma’s service hours. Read more |
Elevating the voice of fhjp's client champion
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Explaining why florida's older uninsured desperately need medicaid expansion
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Reports and Publications
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Adding an Oral Health Benefit to Medicare:
FHJP's Stories Project connected Sonia and Miguel with a Miami Herald reporter who then wrote an article about the need for adding a dental benefit to Medicare. June 2019 |
Videos
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Previous Presentations and Trainings
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Alliance for Aging Annual Conference and Luncheon:
Our presentation on Florida's Medicaid Long-Term Care Waiver (including the latest updates to the LTC Advocate's Guide). March 2019
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FHJP Voices in the News
New York Times Article on Home and Community-based Services Features FHJP Storyteller.
Read Article Here November 1, 2021
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FHJP's Stories Project connected Sonia and Miguel with a Miami Herald reporter, who then wrote about the need for adding a dental benefit to Medicare.
Read Article Here December 20, 2019
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