Sometimes you can heal from a torn ACL. For another ACL, it may not be repairable after the recently proposed Department of Health and Human Services reorganization and layoffs.

This ACL is the Administration for Community Living, which oversees aging and disability services to ensure older adults and people with disabilities can live where they choose with the ability to participate fully in their communities. Like an anatomical ACL, which is often vital to maintaining quality of life, so too is this ACL whose programs and services improve the quality of life for millions of older adults and persons with disabilities of all ages.

The proposed HHS reorganization shows no regard for the rich history of the Older Americans Act, one of the main laws administered by the ACL. We mark its 60th anniversary in 2025 and it stands as a program which has succeeded in its mission beyond all measures. The mission and goal of maintaining the independence, dignity and health of the older adults it serves.

Just days after the HHS reorganization was announced, 50 percent of the ACL workforce was........

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