“Healthcare infrastructure missing ‘centralized access point’ to long-term care: experts,” by Danielle Brown, McKnight’s LTC News Quote: “The healthcare industry is lacking a centralized, community-based resource that can easily direct families to long-term care services and support when the time arises, according to three prominent industry experts.”   LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform: What else is new? Three experts propose an expensive “solution” with no clue how to pay for it, much less why the problem exists in the first place. We have no “centralized, community-based resource” because America relies on a fragmented, publicly
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“One Family’s Lessons Learned From a Decade of Caregiving,” by Claire Ansberry, Wall Street Journal Quote: “The family learned much along their decade-long caregiving journey, about setting up trusts, getting help in the home and respecting each other’s decisions. They think about a few things they would have done differently. … He worried about money, so Suzanne went with her dad to see an attorney specializing in elder law. He helped him set up a new trust to better preserve their assets in case either needed long-term care. It replaced an earlier trust set up shortly after Lucy was diagnosed
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“3 Experts Have Resigned From An FDA Committee Over Alzheimer’s Drug Approval,” by Bill Chappell, NPR Quote: “Three experts have now resigned from a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee after the agency approved an Alzheimer’s drug called Aduhelm against the wishes of nearly every member on the panel. The drug — its generic name is aducanumab — was approved on Monday, setting off a variety of responses, from celebrations among some patients, caregivers and doctors to pointed questions about the drug’s benefits and costs.” Read full article in The Hill:  https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/557675-using-medicaid-to-protect-inheritances” LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care
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“Taxpayers Protecting Inheritances,” by Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute Quote: “We try to keep an eye on hot health policy developments for you, but we also look ahead at emerging opportunities and dangers. Today we are focusing on the latter in an article just published in The Hill, written by leading long-term care expert Steve Moses and Galen Senior Fellow and Medicaid expert Brian Blase. The title says it all: ‘Using Medicaid to protect inheritances.’ … Here’s the issue: Many affluent Americans are hiring lawyers to protect their estates so they don’t have to spend their own money on long-term care.  Homes of more than
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