Dignity Alliance Massachusetts works to secure fundamental changes in the provision of long-term services, support, and care. We are a grass-roots coalition of aging and disability service and advocacy organizations and supporters.
Download the 2021 Dignity Alliance Massachusetts Annual Report (pdf).
Take Action!
- The MA Senate released a report in response to COVID-19. Read more, including the DignityMA response, on the Policies page.
- Join our Work Groups.
- Learn to use and leverage Social Media at our workshops: Engaging Everyone: Creating Accessible, Powerful Social Media Content.
Urgent Action Items
Support these bills and issues by contacting your legislators.
Support An Act relative to supported decision-making agreements for certain adults with disabilities (S.2848, H.4725)
Read More about Supported Decision Making Bill
Support An Act expanding wheelchair warranty protections for consumers with disabilities (S.2567)
Read More about Wheelchair Bill
Advocate to Pay to Spouses as Caregivers
Read More about Paying Spouses as Caregivers
Advocate for Nursing Home Reform
Read More about Nursing Home Bills
Resolution – COVID-19 Remembrance Day
Read More about COVID Remembrance
Action Agenda from Consumer Voice
Read More about March Forth Together
Mission
Dignity Alliance Massachusetts is dedicated to transformative change to ensure the dignity of older adults, people with disabilities, and their caregivers. We are committed to advancing new ways of providing long-term services, support, living options, and care, while respecting choice and self-determination. Through education, legislation, regulatory reform, and legal strategies, this mission will become reality throughout the Commonwealth.
In the News
Governor’s Council on Aging 5 Year Report – DignityMA Analysis
Read More-Governor’s Council on Aging analysis
Alzheimer’s Association: National State Assessment on Dementia Policies – Response on Nursing Facility Care
Read More about DignityMA response to Nursing Facility Care
Consolidation of senior care homes is uprooting hundreds across Massachusetts
Read More about consolidation of facilities
I-Team: Advocates say nursing home crisis could be looming
Read More about Closing Nursing Homes
Birthday cards about aging: the joke lands with some, not others
Read More about Birthday response
Masking in Facilities
Read more about Masking
Visit News and Views for more.
Download the 2020 Dignity Alliance Massachusetts Annual Report (docx).