This report finds that the deep budget cuts enacted by California's legislature in the summer of 2009 will be felt especially among the elderly and infirm. Disabled older adults with low incomes will find it more difficult to access services and, ultimately, harder to live safely at home.

This report begins with a summary of the cuts and provides detailed discussions of how those cuts will impact the major programs and populations affected. It offers a summary of our key informant interviews on this topic as well as a summary of the published literature on the effectiveness of these types of programs. We end with a call for California to return to its past innovative spirit of designing new ways to help disabled older adults remain safely at home.

A policy brief that summarizes this report is available at
http://new.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/Publication.aspx?pubID=380 (abstract from p. 1 of report).