Strengthening Policy to Support Older Adults and Their Caregivers: General Operating Support (CC)

Grant Summary

General operating support grant to Community Catalyst and three other advocacy organizations - the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Justice in Aging and PHI - that educate on aging issues will help ensure access to high-quality health care for older adults and support for family caregivers. Each of these organizations has a particular focus on groups that face disproportionate burdens and poorer health outcomes such as low-income older adults, older adults of color and the direct care workers who care for them.

Community Catalyst is a national non-profit advocacy organization. It represents consumers on a variety of health care issues, serving as the translator of dense, complicated areas of health policy into understandable, relatable and actionable terms that engage consumers to make their voices heard on health policy. Regarding older adults, the organization conducts public policy advocacy on issues such as improving care for dually eligible beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid and long-term care financing in states. Core to Community Catalyst’s mission is to build diversity, equity and inclusion into its work by providing sub-grants to organizations led by Black, Latinx, indigenous or people of color.