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President Biden’s $400 billion proposal to improve long-term care for older adults and those with disabilities was received as either a long overdue expansion of the social safety net or an example of misguided government overreach.
What the debate over the president’s proposal has missed is that despite the big number, its ambitions remain singularly narrow when compared with the vast and growing demands imposed by an aging population.
Biden Takes On Sagging Safety Net With Plan to Fix Long-Term Care
www.nytimes.com
The proposal to spend $400 billion over eight years faces political challenges and a funding system not designed for the burden it has come to bear.The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating multidimensional impact on the world, especially among older adults, and specifically nursing home residents. More than 130,000 nursing home residents have died and for untold thousands their health and lives have been scarred by lingering long-term effects. The pandemic’s impact on the nursing home population brings up a critical and unavoidable moral question: why were so many of our most vulnerable fellow citizens living in such exposed circumstances?
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The author, Larry Polivka, PhD, is the executive director of the Claude Pepper Center and scholar-in-residence with the Claude Pepper Foundation, at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
An Ethic of Care Needed in Long-term Care System
generations.asaging.org
‘Commitment to personal autonomy is an inherent feature of an LTC ethic of care.’The White House’s American Jobs Plan calls for spending about $400 billion over eight years on “home- or community-based care” for the elderly and people with disabilities.
It reflects the growing alarm by some experts about the nation’s inability to absorb the enormous growth in its elderly population — a challenge that threatens to strain an already limited workforce of caregivers; complicate the retirements of millions of people; and force many children, particularly daughters, out of the labor market to care for their parents.
Biden jobs plan seeks $400 billion to expand caretaking services as U.S. faces surge in aging population
www.washingtonpost.com
Close to one fifth of Biden's bill is devoted to expanding in-home care, after the pandemic intensified criticisms of America's nursing homes.Facilities are encouraging staff members to get the vaccine, said Kristen Knapp, spokeswoman for the Florida Health Care Association, the industry group representing nursing homes.
However, low vaccination rates among staffers at long-term care facilities is common across the state. As of March 28, only 36 percent of Florida’s nursing home staff members and 40 percent of assisted-living staff members had received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the state Agency for Health Care Administration.
Majority of Florida’s long-term care staffers refused coronavirus vaccine
www.tampabay.com
Staff members are still hesitant to get a vaccine, but interest is growing, healthcare union leader says