​Hundreds of thousands of older adults and adults with disabilities in California who are Medi-Cal beneficiaries need help with personal and household care to stay in their homes and out of institutional facilities.

But according to research by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR), the proportion of this vulnerable group receiving help from non-family caregivers is a small fraction of the population that is eligible for support services.

On November 30, 2022, UCLA CHPR Senior Research Scientist and Health Equity Program Director Kathryn Kietzman, PhD, and Associate Center Director and Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program Director Nadereh Pourat, PhD, discuss the use of two major Medi-Cal long-term supports and services programs in the state and which Californians are — or aren't — accessing these services.