TFAH Brief: Ensuring Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Older Adults and People with Disabilities Who are Homebound
Trust for America's Health (TFAH) has released a policy brief, "Ensuring Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Older Adults and People with Disabilities Who are Homebound: Recommendations and Considerations for Federal, State, and Local Agencies and their Partners."
At least 2 million older adults are homebound a number that increases when including younger people who are homebound due to illness or disability. Ensuring that this population group is vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus requires focused attention, collaboration and resources. The brief recommends actions that federal, state, and local government, state and local health agencies, the healthcare sector and community partners should take to ensure that people who are homebound are vaccinated.
“Ensuring that every person is vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus is not only a matter of health equity, its critical to ending the pandemic, said John Auerbach, President and CEO of TFAH. “But millions of people in the U.S. cannot travel to a vaccination site. Government and community partners must work together to protect the health of the homebound population by bringing the vaccine to them.”
The report is an outgrowth of two national expert convenings hosted by TFAH. Funding for the report and convenings was provided by The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Cambia Health Foundation.
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To learn more about TFAH's work on access to the COVID-19 vaccine for homebound older adults, click here.
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