State Legislative Priorities
1. Funding for the Maryland State Department of Aging
2. Funding for the Office of Health Care Quality
* Quality Care in Long-Term-Care Facilities
3. Means-Tested Senior Health-Care Issues
a. Eyeglasses
b. Hearing Aids
c. Dental
4. Alzheimer's Funding for Research
5. Incentives To Encourage the Purchase of Long-Term-Care Insurance
6. Aging-in-Place Programs
7. Funding for New Openings for Older Adults Waiver and Care Management of Waiver Clients
8. Medical Services for the Homebound
Federal Legislative Priorities
1. Monitor Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Programs
2. Support Additional Aging-in-Place Programs
3. Support Additional Funding for Means-Tested Senior Health-Care Issues
a. Eyeglasses
b. Hearing Aids
c. Dental
4. Support Funding for Alzheimer's Research and Neuro-generative Diseases
5. Medicare-Funded Caregiver Support
6. Mental-Health Parity
7. Support Funding for the Elder Justice Act To Prevent Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Seniors