Free Webinar: Resident Rights in Medicaid-Funded Assisted Living and Group Homes

From Justice in Aging

Resident Rights in Medicaid-Funded Assisted Living and Group Homes

When: Thursday, December 14, 2023, 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET

Medicaid increasingly can pay for assisted living services or for comparable services provided in a group home or other residential facility for persons with disabilities.  As a condition of accepting Medicaid payment, the facility must honor resident rights set by federal law.

Highlights of this webinar will include:

• Protections from eviction;
• Right to receive visitors at any time;
• Access to food at any time;
• Right to privacy, including a lockable door;
• Access to the local community; and 
• Facility's obligation to accept Medicaid from formerly private-pay residents.

Who Should Participate: Aging and disability advocates and aging network professiona

Presenters: Eric Carlson, Director, Long-Term Services and Supports Advocacy and Gelila Selassie, Senior Attorney

If you would like to request ASL interpretation or have other accessibility related questions, please email info@justiceinaging.org.

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