‘Most important moment in a generation’: LeadingAge offers Congress blueprint to national aging services...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 02, 2021
Modernizing aging buildings, increasing affordable senior housing stock, investing in workforce recruitment and retention, and financing are key factors in a blueprint for building the national aging infrastructure...
Pandemic has bolstered LTSS, advocacy firm finds
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 02, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed state policymakers to make their Medicaid programs more flexible, analysts from Manatt Health, with funding from The SCAN Foundation, reveal in a recently published resource...
Collaboration needed if assisted living is to continue serving dually eligible older adults: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 01, 2021
As states continue to work to rebalance long-term services and supports spending away from nursing home care, assisted living is gaining as an option for Medicare-Medicaid dually eligible older adults...
New administration, Congress bring increased scrutiny on senior living: NIC panel
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 28, 2021
Long-term services and supports, value-based care and regulatory scrutiny are among the key issues facing senior living providers one week after President Biden’s inauguration.
Older LTSS recipients with cardiopulmonary conditions at increased risk of hospitalization
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 17, 2016
Assisted living residents and other older adults who receive long-term services and supports and live with a combination of heart and lung conditions have an elevated risk of hospitalization, according...