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Two important pocketbook questions for seniors

When am I going to be able to start collecting benefits under the law’s new long-term-care program? When will the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap close?

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Long-Term Care: Medicaid’s Ticking Bomb

Long-Term Care: Medicaid’s Ticking Bomb

Medicaid costs as a percentage of state budgets will nearly double — perhaps triple in “worst case scenarios” — by 2030, study finds.

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How health reform will affect long-term care

How health reform will affect long-term care

National Council on Aging’s Jim Firman on the impact of the Community Living Assistance Service and Supports (CLASS) Act that creates a federal insurance program for long-term care.

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Long-term care program debuts in new health law

Long-term care program debuts in new health law

Buried within the new health law is the first federal insurance program to help Americans meet the often crushing costs of long-term care.

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Public reverse mortgages and long-term care: can they work together?

Public reverse mortgages and long-term care: can they work together?

What if your state helped you turn your home equity into cash to pay for long-term care?

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For senior care, sometimes it does take a village

For senior care, sometimes it does take a village

Aging-in-place “villages” springing up around the country to help seniors stay in their homes.

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How Does U.S. long-term care stack up against the rest of the world?

How Does U.S. long-term care stack up against the rest of the world?

Efforts to get Americans to buy private long-term care insurance have largely failed.

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Why $75-a-day matters to long-term caregivers

Why $75-a-day matters to long-term caregivers

A new study says, yes, it would made a real difference.

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Aging in place is not so easy

Aging in place is not so easy

‘Aging in Place’ is the popular rallying cry in the senior community, but living at home isn’t so easy for the frail elderly or younger people with disabilities.

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The Death of Nursing Homes

The Death of Nursing Homes

The number of facilities has fallen by nearly 1,000 to about 15,700 since 2000. More than 80,000 beds have been shuttered over those nine years. And the number of Medicaid-only beds—those certified for long-term care stays– has plunged by half since 1995, to about 114,000.

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Health stories in the news

Health stories in the news

Unapproved hormone used to prevent premature births
Seattle Times health reporter Kyung Song writes in today’s issue of the paper about a program in which Washington state’s largest Medicaid contractor is promoting the use of a synthetic hormone that is thought to prevent premature births.
But the hormone, called 17P, has not been approved by the U.S. [...]

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The Last Taboo

The Last Taboo

Howard Gleckman, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute
August 14, 2009
We live in a time when seemingly no subject is taboo. People discuss, in excruciating detail, their weight, sex lives, and bank accounts on reality TV. Kids tweet about their dates—in real time. And we happily blog away on our latest medical diagnosis. It is apparently no [...]

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FDA may require glucose monitors to be more accurate
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon require glucose monitors used by more than 11 million diabetics in the U.S. to be more accurate, Gardiner Harris reports in the New York Times.
Under current standards, these monitors can be off by as much as 20 percent putting [...]

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Who Will Care for the Elderly and Disabled?

Howard Gleckman, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute
July 20, 2009
Advocates of including long-term care services in health reform usually focus on two issues: How many Medicaid dollars should be spent on home care and whether to create a national long-term care insurance program, such as Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has proposed in his CLASS [...]

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Federal Nursing Home Web Site Attracts Visitors — And Debate

By Elizabeth G. Olson
July 14, 2009
(This story is a collaboration between Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post.)
When 81-year-old Sally Darr needed nursing home care after injuring herself in a fall, her family turned to a new federal rating system for help.
The online tool uses movie-review-style ratings – one to five stars – to compare [...]

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“Partnership” Policies for Long-Term Care Hold Promise–and Pitfalls

“Partnership” Policies for Long-Term Care Hold Promise–and Pitfalls

Medicare covers little long-term care. Long-term care insurance, which pays benefits for a stay in a nursing home or assisted living facility as well as for home care, could offer some financial security.

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Obama Backs Helping Hand For Long-Term Care

Obama Backs Helping Hand For Long-Term Care

By Joseph Shapiro
NPR – a Kaiser Health News partner

July 08, 2009
Until recently, it looked like long-term care was not going to be a serious part of any potential health care overhaul.
But that changed when the Obama administration this week endorsed a new government social insurance program that would help people put aside money [...]

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Health stories in the news

Health stories in the news

Health costs can bankrupt even those with insurance
Seattle Times Health Reporter Kyung Song tells the story of Mark Moody and Glenda Krull, an Edmonds couple struggling to cover their health care expenses even though they are middle class and have health insurance.
Moody’s case is complicated by the fact that he needs a second liver transplant, [...]

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New Web tool helps you choose a nursing home

If you or a loved one needs nursing home care, how can you find about about the quality of various nursing homes? In this column, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, describes a new easy-to-use Web tool called Nursing Home Compare.
“The tool provides information on nursing homes that have [...]

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How to Choose Long-Term Care Services

How do you find long-term care for a family member? And how do you pay for it?
In this column, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, reviews your options.
A nursing home isn’t the only answer, Dr. Clancy writes: often there are other services, such as adult day care, meals [...]

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