Residential care home workforce development: the rhetoric and reality of meeting older residents’ future care needs

Joseph Rowntree Foundation discusses the benefits of appropriate training for staff on the health of older residents.

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How well do older Australians utilise their homes?

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute examines the way in which older couples utilize their homes. Most live as singles or couples in two to three bedroom abodes; 88% of them are considered as under-utilized. Most prefer to remain in their own home; the vast majority do not favor living with adult children.

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A New Social Security ‘Notch’? Bad News for People Born in 1947

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College discuss changes to Social Security, which will result in lower payments to new retirees. The current formula for adding cost of living increased could result in the typical couple born in 1947 losing $12,000 over the course of their retirement.

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Reports on Medicaid Long-Term Care from CHHS

Three policy briefs are available from Center for Health Care Strategies:

Medicaid-Funded Long-Term Supports and Services: Snapshots of Innovation discusses innovative programs from across the program which reform the delivery of Medicaid-funded long-term care.

Systems of Care: Environmental Scan of Medicaid-Funded Long-Term Supports and Services offers the results of a scan, which examined the current status of publicly funded long-term care programs.

Medicaid-Funded Long-Term Care: Toward More Home- and Community-Based Options presents a set of recommendations to make Medicaid funded long-term care more cost-effective and consumer-oriented.