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ASA’s professional education and training services and programs use 10 main topics to structure our knowledge offerings; these ten topics form the basis for the subject-matter organization of our annual conference and webinars, and of our web site. You can most quickly locate articles and other resources relating to these specific topics by selecting one from the main Education or side navigation menus.
This is the starting page for topics related to Caregiving, which covers such areas as Care Transitions, Chronic Care, End-of-Life Issues and Palliative Care, Home-based Services and Products, Intergenerational Families and Long Term Care. |
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Online Learning: ASA members have free access to all web seminars.
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Recent federal investments in care transitions show that the government is placing a high priority on this issue on a national level, as demonstrated in three prominent programs launched as provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Medicaid is a means-tested entitlement program financed by a partnership between the federal government and states, and it provides the bulk of long-term care for more than 60 million low-income Americans. Medicaid also accounts for 17 percent of all hospital spending, and is the single largest source of coverage for nursing home care. Older adults and people with physical disabilities account for 18 percent of Medicaid enrollees, but 66 percent of the costs.
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Figure 1: Common Care Transitions in Nursing Homes
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The Winter 2012−13 issue of Generations, “Care Transitions in an Aging America,” is here! Watch for it to appear in your mailbox soon. Additional single- or multiple-copy orders can be made from our online catalog.
How much do elders need to live in the community? How many people can afford to live independently without the help of government supports? In what parts of the country do large numbers of elders need help?
Last week we asked you what services, technologies and programs are key to aging in place and you had a lot to say! Top answers included:

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