Master Plan for Aging Goal Two: Health Reimagined focuses on access to the services older adults and people with disabilities need to live at home and to optimize their health and quality of life. These services include help with handling routine and personal care needs. Routine needs refer to instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), such as everyday household chores, doing necessary business, shopping, or getting around for other purposes. Personal care needs refer to activities of daily living (ADLs), such as eating, bathing, dressing, or getting around inside your home. Information about which of these types of services are needed, and by whom, can help inform policy decisions about how to improve access to services for older adults and people with disabilities.

This indicator provides data on paid and unpaid help received by adults age 18 or older who self-identify as having difficulties with concentrating, remembering, or making decisions; dressing or bathing; and/or doing errands alone.

Check out the Health Reimagined Goal Page to explore dynamic visualizations and view more detailed data related to this topic. In addition, check out the Caregiving that Works Goal Page to explore dynamic visualizations and view more detailed data related to family and friend caregivers: Adults age 18 or older who provided care within the past 12 months to a family member or friend with a serious or chronic illness or disability.

To learn more about our data sources and methodologies, please see the Data Dashboard for Aging - About the Data Technical Guide.

• Latest Publications from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
• Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Public Use Data Files: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
• Related Programs
  • Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)/Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  • Medi-Cal
  • Medicare
  • In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Program
  • Community-Based Adult Services (CBAS) – Adult Day Health Care
  • The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model in California
  • Multipurpose Senior Services Program (MSSP)
• Aging-in-Place: Growing Older at Home (NIH)
• Justice in Aging
• Experiences of aging in place in the United States: protocol for a systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative studies
• Who Is Caring for the Caregivers? The Financial, Physical, and Mental Health Costs of Caregiving in California (UCLA Policy Brief)