“42% of older adults have unmet need for assistive bathing, toileting devices,” by Madison Weller, Healio

“A nationally representative cohort study estimated that 5 million older adults in the U.S. who have difficulty performing self-care tasks or are at risk for falls lack access to grab bars, shower seats and other assistive devices.”

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

If Medicaid hadn’t choked off worry about oncoming LTC need and cost by providing subsidized nursing home care when people can no longer cope, families and individuals would have planned, saved, invested and insured with this risk and cost in mind. They’d know assistive devices are just the gateway for bigger and more expensive care and they’d be protected privately for both. That’s what government’s “good intentions” have wrought.