New pictures on Flickr
Pictures from NCIL 2009. View them here.
Welcome to the Access Alaska community.
We’ve been opening doors to independence for seniors and Alaskans with disabilities for more than two decades.
Alaska is your home. Access Alaska is your community. A place where:
- You can find answers, voice concerns and share insights.
- You can access services or help a fellow Alaskan.
- Life’s challenges are always met with respect, dignity and understanding.
We help Alaskans secure funding, find information and access resources, training and services to lead the most productive, meaningful and satisfying lives possible.
Select your area of interest from the following menu:
Elder
Alaskans: Resources and services for Alaskan elders to make the most of their golden years.
.
Alaskans
with Disabilites: Resources and services to enable Alaskans with disabilities to achieve independence.
Alaska
Families: Resources and services to support and help families help themselves.
Complete
Services: A comprehensive listing of Access Alaska services.
Life is what you make it.
This is where you make it better
.
With offices in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Mat-Su and Kenai
Access Alaska Community News and Events
June 23, 2009
10th anniversary of freedom for people with disabilities
June 16, 2009
Thank you Senator Begich and Congressman Young
Both are co-sponsors of the Community Choice Act. Please contact Senator Murkowski's Office and ask her to co-sponsor this important piece of legislation
H.R. 1670 and S. 683
The Community Choice Act will help bring an end to the shameful institutional bias in this country. Currently, every state that receives Medicaid is required by law to provide nursing facility services, but community-based services remain optional, leaving them open to funding cuts year after year as institutions remain prosperous. As a direct result, millions of seniors and people with disabilities are forced into institutions to receive medical or personal assistance services.
The Community Choice Act requires states to offer community-based supports for Medicaid-eligible consumers who want to stay in or return to their homes and communities. It will provide a real alternative to institutional care that many states lack, as well as saving Medicaid billions of dollars.
The average cost of a private nursing home room is $74,000, yet the cost of a full-time home health aide only $42,300 per year. When totaled, the savings to states and the federal government (simply by allowing people to receive services in their homes) will allow for expanded healthcare services and the elimination of lengthy waiting lists on which people currently sit for years at a time, waiting to receive services anywhere but in an institution.
The Community Choice Act is a cost-effective initiative as well as the right thing to do.
(Thanks to NCIL)
