Long-Term Care Financing

Long-term care financing is probably the most important aging and disability policy issue confronting the middle class.  Many people incorrectly believe that Medicare will pay for long term care, if it’s needed.  This is a false perception.  Conversations across the country have begun to find a “pathway” to change public policies better to address a challenge that a majority of people will face before they die.  Here are materials that provide background and will stimulate conversation.

LeadingAge Pathways Report, where national leaders take a look at the problem and map a way to reach a solution.

Hawaii has done its own studies, and here are the results – a final report from 2012 and a feasibility study from 2014

Meanwhile, LeadingAge California makes the case for importance in California of our taking up the challenge, in this presentation on making pathways for LTSS financing reform.