Archives
- 2011.03.07: Money Follows the Person, Medicaid, Elders, and Nursing Homes
- 2011.03.01: Medicaid Block Grants Would Cripple Long-Term Care
- 2011.02.23: The Growth of Managed Long-Term Care
- 2011.02.16: Tough Times for Federal Assistance for Seniors
- 2011.02.16: Tough Times for Federal Assistance for Seniors
- 2011.02.07: HHS' Sebelius: CLASS Sustainability "Non-Negotiable"
- 2011.02.02: New Study: CLASS Insurance Unaffordable for Many
- 2011.01.26: The Coming Budget Freeze on Elder Care, and What to Do About It
- 2011.01.19: More Bad News for State Long-Term Care Services
- 2011.01.11: Nursing Homes Closing: What It Means for Long-Term care
- 2011.01.05: Death and Politics
- 2010.12.29: Medicare and End of Life Planning
- 2010.12.22: A Minnesota Civic Group's Plan to Reform Long-Term Care
- 2010.12.15: Powerful New Ways to Integrate Care for Seniors
- 2010.12.09: Obama Aide: "Cautiously Optimistic" About the CLASS Act
- 2010.12.01: Obama Deficit Panel Chairs: CLASS Act is "Unsustainable"
- 2010.11.24: The Importance of Care Transitions for Seniors
- 2010.11.18: Tough Sell: The Future of CLASS and Private Long-Term Care Insurance
- 2010.11.10: The Obama Fiscal Commission, Medicaid, and Seniors
- 2010.11.03: Will the New Congress Repeal the CLASS Act?
- 2010.10.27: What Adult Children Don't Know About Their Parents' Finances
- 2010.10.18: Aging in Place Requires More than Good Intentions
- 2010.10.12: Why Do So Many Nursing Home Residents End up in the Hospital?
- 2010.10.06: Aides in Nursing Homes: Not What You Think
- 2010.09.30: Medicaid's Coming Elder Care Bomb
- 2010.09.22: Aging in Place and Energy Assistance
- 2010.09.15: A Great Old Housing Alternative for Seniors
- 2010.09.08: Medicare "Observation Status" and Nursing Homes
- 2010.09.02: Listening to Elder Care Professionals
- 2010.08.25: Listening to Overlooked Caregivers
- 2010.08.19: Study: Palliative Care Improves Length and Quality of Life
- 2010.08.11: Alzheimer's Screening and Long Term Care Insurance
- 2010.08.03: A New Picture of An Aging Population
- 2010.07.28: The Heritage Foundation is Wrong About the CLASS Act
- 2010.07.26: The New York Times, Dementia, and Home Care
- 2010.07.21: Senate Panel Examines Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- 2010.07.15: The Importance of Early Dementia Diagnosis
- 2010.07.07: Obama's Choice to Run Medicaid and Medicare
- 2010.07.02: Does Active Caregiving Reduce Emotional Stress?
- 2010.06.23: Medicaid's Long-Term Care Time Bomb
- 2010.06.13: Family Caregivers: The Real Medical Homes
- 2010.06.09: The White House Begins to Market the CLASS Act
- 2010.06.02: Congress, Medicare, and The "Doc Fix"
- 2010.05.26: What To Do About Social Security
- 2010.05.17: Congress, Medicare, and Home Health Agencies
- 2010.05.07: An Interesting New Home Care Option
- 2010.04.29: Superbug: If You Care About MRSA, Buy This Book
- 2010.04.22: A New Study Gives Private Long-Term Insurance a Boost
- 2010.04.15: New Report: $115 Average Premiums for CLASS-Like Insurance
- 2010.04.13: What The CLASS Act Will Mean for You
- 2010.04.02: Can Government and Private LTC Insurance Mesh?
- 2010.03.23: How To Make CLASS Insurance Work
- 2010.03.22: Health Bill Includes Major Long-Term Care Changes
- 2010.03.14: Aging Outside the Mainstream
- 2010.03.09: Retired Couples Will Spend $260,000 on Medical & LTC Costs
- 2010.03.01: An Important Look at Palliative Care
- 2010.02.22: CLASS Act, Medicaid Improvements in Obama Health Bill
- 2010.02.21: How Other Countries Pay For Long-Term Care
- 2010.02.15: The UK Continues to Struggle With Long-Term Care
- 2010.02.09: Villages: A Key Piece to the Aging in Place Puzzle
- 2010.02.03: Caregiving and Health
- 2010.01.25: Obama Will Propose Modest New Spending for Respite Care
- 2010.01.20: What Will Happen to Long-Term Care Reform?
- 2010.01.10: Long-term Care In the U.S. and Europe
- 2010.01.05: Garner: "I Don't Have Any Question CLASS Act Will Survive"
- 2010.01.01: Medicare Rehab: You Don't Need to be "Improving" to Get Help
- 2009.12.21: Washington Post Opposes Class
- 2009.12.19: CLASS Act Remains in Compromise Senate Health Bill
- 2009.12.18: What Critics Are Missing With CLASS
- 2009.12.08: The State of Caregiving in the U.S.
- 2009.12.06: CLASS Action in the Senate
- 2009.11.30: Will CLASS Survive Congress?
- 2009.11.23: CLASS and the Budget
- 2009.11.18: Senate Dems Include CLASS Act In Health Bill
- 2009.11.15: Medicare Actuary: Few Will Buy CLASS Long-Term Care Insurance
- 2009.11.12: New Hampshire Talks About Home Care
- 2009.11.08: eCareDiary: A Nice New Caregiver Website
- 2009.11.04: Will Tax Credits Sell Long-Term Care Insurance?
- 2009.10.29: CLASS Act is in House Health Bill, But Pitfalls Remain
- 2009.10.26: Erickson's Bankruptcy and the Future of CCRCs
- 2009.10.23: Elder Abuse
- 2009.10.21: Changes and Growing Optimism for the CLASS Act
- 2009.10.07: Family Stress and Long-Term Care
- 2009.09.27: Moses, Me, and the CLASS Act
- 2009.09.22: Baucus Adds Medicaid Home Care to Reform Bill
- 2009.09.16: Senator Baucus Mostly Ignores Long-Term Care
- 2009.09.14: Is This the Year for Long-Term Care Reform?
- 2009.09.07: Family Caregivers Need to Care for Themselves
- 2009.08.23: Why Can't The Washington Post Understand End-of Life?
- 2009.08.19: A Community Tackles Long-Term Care II
- 2009.08.16: A Community Tackles Long-Term Care
- 2009.08.11: What Are Living Wills?
- 2009.08.02: Medicare and End-of-Life
- 2009.07.28: Technology and Long-term Care
- 2009.07.21: CLASS Takes Another Step in Congress
- 2009.07.21: Poll Shows Support for Long-Term Services in Health Reform
- 2009.07.14: Little Long-Term Care in Initial House Health Bill
- 2009.07.07: CLASS Act Gets Boost from the White House
- 2009.07.06: How Much Would CLASS Act Premiums Cost?
- 2009.06.30: Should Government Long-Term Care Insurance Pay for Health Reform?
- 2009.06.26: CLASS Act Premiums May Be $100, CBO Says
- 2009.06.22: Can We Keep the Elderly out of the Hospital?
- 2009.06.16: Is Mandatory Long-term Care Insurance the Answer?
- 2009.06.09: Long-term Care Reforms Take a First Step in the Senate
- 2009.06.01: My New Kaiser Health News Column
- 2009.05.26: USA Today Op-Ed on Long-Term Care
- 2009.05.18: Make Home Care the Default for Medicaid
- 2009.05.08: Kennedy's Health Reform+Long-Term Care
- 2009.05.03: Rationing Health Care
- 2009.04.23: Should Medicaid Continue to Care for the Poor and Frail Elderly?
- 2009.04.15: Where Will We Get the Aides to Help Care for Our Parents?
- 2009.04.01: Long-Term Care: Bad News for Retirement Security
- 2009.03.25: Will Long-term Care Be Included In Health Reform?
- 2009.03.13: Welcome to the Caring for Our Parents Blog
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- Aging: March 2011
- Aging: February 2011
- Aging: October 2010
- Aging: August 2010
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- Care Coordination: November 2010
- Care Coordination: September 2010
- Care Coordination: June 2010
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- Caregiver tips: October 2010
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- family caregivers: January 2011
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- Federal senior services programs: March 2011
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- long term care reform: March 2011
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- long term care reform: December 2010
- long term care reform: November 2010
- long term care reform: July 2010
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- long-term care financing: February 2011
- long-term care financing: January 2011
- long-term care financing: December 2010
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- long-term care financing: July 2010
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- long-term care financing: February 2010
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- long-term care financing: December 2009
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- long-term care financing: June 2009
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- long-term care financing: April 2009
- long-term care insurance: February 2011
- long-term care insurance: December 2010
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- long-term care insurance: August 2010
- long-term care workers: October 2010
- long-term care workers: September 2010
- long-term care workers: June 2009
- Medicaid: March 2011
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- nursing homes: March 2011
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- Senior housing: March 2011
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