Government may scale back Medicare Part B premium increase

Government may scale back Medicare Part B premium increase

From CNBC.com —   There’s a chance that your Medicare Part B premiums for 2022 could be reduced. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Monday announced that he is instructing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reassess this year’s...
Aging Adults: Putting the Home Back in Nursing Home

Aging Adults: Putting the Home Back in Nursing Home

From NextAvenue.org —   Redesigning nursing home care for the future By Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN and The John A. Hartford Foundation The pandemic has triggered a national conversation about where and how people want to live as they age and need increasing...
Booster shots lagging for Ohio nursing home residents

Booster shots lagging for Ohio nursing home residents

From The Dayton Daily News —     Only 35% of Ohio nursing home residents — a population extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 — and 13% of nursing home staff have received their coronavirus booster vaccine, according to the latest data from mid-November. The majority of...
5 Reasons Older Adults Aren’t Getting Hired

5 Reasons Older Adults Aren’t Getting Hired

From Next Avenue —   Why the jobs picture is complicated for them, and how one woman is skilling up By Ramona Schindelheim If you’re over 40, hunting for a job and not getting hired, you’re far from alone. Adults in their 40s, 50s and 60s now make up half...
Study: Medicaid Expansion Saved Lives in Affected States

Study: Medicaid Expansion Saved Lives in Affected States

From HealthCare.gov —   By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter In a sign that the expansion of Medicaid has really worked, new research finds that death rates have declined in states that expanded the public health insurance program. Medicaid expansion began in 2014 as...
Long-term care tops list of retirement fears of American workers

Long-term care tops list of retirement fears of American workers

From McKnight’s Senior Living —   Paying for long-term care, declining health that requires long-term care, and outliving savings and investments are among the top retirement concerns of American workers, according to the results of a new survey. Transamerica...
Medicaid Policy Expected on Vaccines Access for Low-Income Children

Medicaid Policy Expected on Vaccines Access for Low-Income Children

From the Kaiser Family Foundation —   Following the recent US Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation, children ages 5-11 are now eligible to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19...
How House spending bill would fund care for aging Americans

How House spending bill would fund care for aging Americans

From The Washington Post —   By Rachel Roubein Articles in this guide describe key features of legislation passed by the House to advance President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and overhaul social and climate policy in the United States. The bill now moves to the...