New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department

This document outlines the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) goals and associated performance measures for the Aging & Long-Term Services Department. The agency's strategic direction focuses on five key areas: administering core programs to support the independence and access to services for older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers; promoting equity and addressing social determinants of health; reducing abuse, neglect, and exploitation; facilitating tribal access to funding and coordination; and developing internal behavioral health supports for staff. The plan aims to empower individuals to live independently in their communities, ensuring their dignity, health, safety, and economic well-being.

This State Plan on Aging outlines a roadmap for programs and services designed to support older adults and their caregivers in New Mexico. The plan's overarching purpose is to assist these individuals in maintaining independence, living safely, and autonomously. It focuses on four primary goals: ensuring high-quality home and community-based services, implementing evidence-based services for a comprehensive continuum of care, establishing innovative care and support options that prioritize consumer autonomy, and reducing instances of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The plan also emphasizes enhancing program quality through data standardization, evaluation, and outcome measurement.

The New Mexico State Plan on Aging, developed by the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department, outlines a roadmap to assist older adults and their caregivers in maintaining independence, safety, and autonomy. The plan focuses on four primary goals: ensuring high-quality home and community-based services, implementing evidence-based services to improve autonomy and outcomes, establishing innovative care with consumer control, and reducing abuse, neglect, and exploitation. It also prioritizes enhancing program quality, modernizing service delivery, and addressing the needs of diverse, rural, and low-income populations, including Tribal communities.

This document outlines the strategic goals for the Aging & Long-Term Services Department for Fiscal Year 2026. It focuses on providing accessible and integrated services to older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers to promote independence and well-being. Key strategic areas include delivering core home and community services, advancing equity for economically and socially vulnerable older adults, mitigating abuse and neglect, supporting Tribal access to funding, and enhancing internal staff behavioral health.

This Strategic Plan outlines the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department's commitment to empowering New Mexicans for lifelong independence and healthy aging through accessible, integrated services. The plan focuses on five key goals: expanding home and community-based services and caregiver support, promoting equity and well-being by addressing social determinants of health, reducing occurrences of abuse, neglect, and exploitation, assisting Tribes, Pueblos, and Nations in accessing funding and enhancing coordination, and developing internal behavioral health supports for staff. The vision is a state where every resident can age with dignity and purpose, supported by culturally diverse, equitable, and compassionate programs.