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More online resources needed for Californians with disabilities requiring help making critical decisions

UCLA analysis calls for providing supported decision-making materials tailored for more languages, cultures, employment sectors, and disability types
Woman helps a man older than her read information on a tablet computer.

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Community organizations awarded $200,000 to implement UCLA students’ health equity projects

Four proposals each receive $50,000 to support Black male trauma recovery, foster youth resilience, autism-friendly emergency departments, and accessible playgrounds
The 2025 UCLA Health Equity Challenge finalists

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Ask the Expert: Calvin Chang on what community-engaged research means for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

The director of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab explains how good intentions haven’t always produced good collaborations
Calvin Chang Ask the Expert

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Medi-Cal long-term services
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November 02, 2022

Medi-Cal’s long-term care services reach only a small portion of seniors, disabled adults

UCLA study predicts increasing need for support, especially as population ages

No place to go: Even severely disabled seniors would lose in-home care under proposed state budget cuts
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February 17, 2010

No place to go: Even severely disabled seniors would lose in-home care under proposed state budget cuts

​Despite claims that proposed state budget cuts to programs that provide in-home care to disabled senior citizens will not affect those with the highest level of need, a new analysis by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research finds that even severely disabled seniors will experience a total loss of services.

Half-million low-income elderly affected by sweeping cuts to state safety net
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October 01, 2009

Half-million low-income elderly affected by sweeping cuts to state safety net

These are some of the hundreds of thousands of low-income seniors who are likely to lose income — and some of the tens of thousands who will also lose some or all of the in-home and supportive care they rely on — as budget cuts resulting from California's 2009 fiscal crisis go into effect starting Oct. 1, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.