Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults’ Perspectives on Proposed Medicaid Reforms’ Effects on Dental Care Access

Mary Northridge; Ivette Estrada; Eric W. Schrimshaw; Ariel Port Greenblatt; Sara S. Metcalf; Carol Kunzel

Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults’ Perspectives on Proposed Medicaid Reforms’ Effects on Dental Care Access

Mary Northridge, Ivette Estrada, Eric W. Schrimshaw, Ariel Port Greenblatt, Sara S. Metcalf, Carol Kunzel

Global Public Health

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To examine how proposed Medicaid reform plans are experienced by racial/ethnic minority older adults and what the implications are for their ability to access dental care through Medicaid, from 2013 to 2015 we conducted focus groups in northern Manhattan, New York, New York, among African American, Dominican, and Puerto Rican adults aged 50 years and older. Participants reported problems with affording copayments for care, complicated health and social issues, the need for vision and dental care close to home, and confusion about and stigmatization with Medicaid coverage. Federal, state, and local public health agencies can help by clarifying and simplifying Medicaid plans and sustaining benefits that older adults need to live healthy and dignified lives

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Oral health in America
Subtitle of host publication	removing the stain of disparity
Editors	Henrie Treadwell, Caswell Evans
Place of Publication	Washington, DC
Publisher	American Public Health Association
Chapter	34
Pages	287-299
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	978-0-87553-305-6
State	Published - 2019

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Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults’ Perspectives on Proposed Medicaid Reforms’ Effects on Dental Care Access. / Northridge, Mary; Estrada, Ivette; Schrimshaw, Eric W. et al.
Oral health in America: removing the stain of disparity. ed. / Henrie Treadwell; Caswell Evans. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2019. p. 287-299.

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