The U.S. and Germany have approached their long-term care landscapes differently—what can be learned from each country?
Two Countries, Two Paths to Long-Term Care
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Health and Home
The role of Medicaid and managed care in home- and community-based services and long-term supportive services.
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?
AddnAide: Lessons from the National Home-Care Workforce Shortage
How an Ohio Area Agency on Aging created an app that expands access to self-directed care.
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.
Aging-in-Place Villages and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
AI can provide many administrative functions to villages, making it easier for them to attract and retain members.
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 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.
The Telehealth Revolution That Can’t Reach Everyone
Bridging the digital divide is essential, yet politics may prevent our progress.