The role of Medicaid and managed care in home- and community-based services and long-term supportive services.
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Maybe Elephants Can Dance
Tracking the growth of home- and community-based services over three decades.
Medicaid at 60: Its Essential Role for Older Adults
Shining a light on Medicaid’s challenges, disparities in access, and recommended policy changes to strengthen the program.
Expanding Medicare’s Ability to Provide Home-Based Care
What would it take to make care at home possible and how might we implement it?
Ten Years of NCI-AD
Supporting quality and accountability in long-term services and supports for older adults and people with disabilities.
Older Americans Act Revisions: Enhancing Community Supports for HCBS
Tools like the NCI-AD are proving invaluable for collecting meaningful data, monitoring service quality, and driving continuous improvement.
Person-Centered Supports for Older Adults: How Paid Family Caregiving Measures Up
Parsing findings from the National Core Indicators and Adult Consumer Survey regarding paid and unpaid caregiving.
The Role of Area Agencies on Aging in Medicaid Waivers and Medicaid Managed Care
This model offers a proven, scalable approach for aligning healthcare with community supports for older adults and people with disabilities.
Beyond Home Care—What Now?
‘Ensuring the comfort and dignity of older adults requires us to consider an “all-of-the-above” strategy.’
America’s Home-care Crisis
Will vulnerable elders be forced into nursing homes?
America’s Growing Gray Gap
New data reveals behavioral health crisis among older adults.
Let’s Accelerate Replicating Small Houses for Elders as Part of Broader Initiatives
The Green House Project is a person-centered model for what works in communities, if implemented and built out.
Ohio’s Long-Term Care Quality Navigator
Forging a new era of transparency and technology in aging services.
The Missing Middle: Why Aging Policy Needs Congregate Living Models
Comprehensive aging policy should invest in diverse congregate living models and remove regulatory barriers that make homelike group settings difficult to establish.
What’s Your Sleep Number?
The quantification of sleep in older adults.
Why Is Where You Live So Important?
Rounding up the various risk profiles of housing and neighborhoods, and effects on elders.
Place Matters in Health at Every Age
Neighborhoods can provide supportive environments for active aging.
Consequences of Increasing Housing Cost Burdens in Older Households
Challenges paying for housing can worsen health, make repairs impossible, and lead to unwanted or unnecessary moves.
Age-Friendly Strategies for a Warming World
Potential challenges to living in increasingly warm climes, and how the Age-Friendly Communities Framework can help with prevention and planning.
Why Where You Live Is Crucial for Social Health
How our communities and local relationships can foster connection and social health, a pillar of health, well-being and longevity.