The Advancing Rural Aging Policy in California webinar took place on December 11 and delved into the differences in rural definitions and highlighted the unique challenges rural older adults experience related to long-term care, access to health care, and other vital services.
Health Matters: A Conversation With California’s Next Governor
The Health Matters Forum on November 7, 2025 will bring California’s gubernatorial candidates together for a nonpartisan conversation on health and community well-being.
Pear Suite’s AI-enabled platform empowers community health workers (CHWs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and health plans to deliver high-quality care, measure outcomes, and help make care sustainable and scalable. This investment will support Pear Suite in continuing to transform the role of CHWs in the healthcare system, who serve as intermediaries between health plans and Medicaid members, older adults, people with disabilities, and other communities that have historically faced systemic challenges in accessing care.
California Voters on the Master Plan for Aging: A Call for Equity and Investment
We hosted a special webinar and briefing on May 3, 2021 to discuss the latest poll results gauging California voters’ support for the Master Plan for Aging and its core goals.
Advancing Health Equity in Aging: Discovery Project to Build Alliances and The Opportunity to Organize Older Adults
This project will document and visualize the full landscape of organizing actors, categories, and roles of different sectors to organize older adults. It will learn directly from people working in adjacent spaces, including funders, organizers, academics, and older adults themselves, and develop and prioritize ideas for ways to make the most impact.
This analysis examines the potential access impacts on the dual eligible population in each state of three Medicaid policies passed in July 2025 as part of H.R.1 federal legislation: delaying implementation of CMS rules on Medicaid eligibility & enrollment; reducing how states are able to use state-directed payments (SDP) for Medicaid providers; and imposition of work requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility for certain populations.
