Long Term Supports and Services

• Kaiser Issue Brief: The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act   (October 21, 2009)
• ANCOR LTSS Issue Brief (September 15, 2009)
• Community First Choice Option One Pager (August 31, 2009)
• Summary of Key Long Term Supports and Services Legislation (July 30, 2009)
• Long Term Care in Health Reform: Policy Options to Improve Both (July 27, 2009)
• Pass the Community Choice Act

• HHS on Olmstead Anniversary and President's Proclamation of "Year of Community Living" (June 22, 2009)
• Nation's Governors Adopt Health Reform Principles for Congress and Administration - Including Long-Term Services and Supports (May 28, 2009)
• CCD: National Aging and Disability Organizations United in Call for Health Care Reform to Address Needs for Long Term Services and Supports (March 26, 2009)
• Pass the CLASS Act Website (March 2009)
• CLASS Act of 2009 Fact Sheet (H.R. 1721 and S. 697) (March 2009)
• Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care Hearing: “The Role of Long-Term Care in Health Reform" (March 25, 2009)
  • Video of the Hearing
• PHI Report: The Need for Monitoring the Long-Term Care Direct Service Workforce and Recommendations for Data Collection (February 2009)
  
• Kaiser: Medicaid and Long-Term Care Services and Supports (February 12, 2009)
• SCAN Foundation: Long-Term Care - An Essential Element of Healthcare Reform (December 2008)

• Kaiser: Vermont's 'Choices for Care' Medicaid Long-Term Services Waiver: Progress and Challenges (November 17, 2008)

• NCD: The State of 21st Century Financial Incentives for Americans with Disabilities (October 27, 2008)

• National Disability and Aging Organizations Issue Historic Set of Joint Principles on Long-Term Supports and Services (October 20, 2008)

• AHIP: State Medicaid Expenditures for Long-Term Care 2008-2027 (October 1, 2008)

• AARP July 2008 Report:  A Balancing Act: State Long-Term Care Reform (July 15, 2008)

• Fiscal Challenges to a Strong Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care System: Oregon’s Fight to Maintain Leadership (June 11, 2008)

• 13 Million Available to States for Real Choice Systems Change Grants—Applications Due July 17th (May 2, 2008)

• Governors to Examine Long-Term Care February 24th at National Governors Association Winter Meeting (February 21, 2008)

• The Contribution of Self-Direction to Improving the Quality of Mental Health Services (February 8, 2008)

• NCQLTC: Recommendations to Improve Quality in Long-Term Care (December 3, 2007)

• State Perspectives on Emerging Medicaid Long-Term Care (October 2007)
• Lessons Learned From Deinstitutionalization of People with Mental Illness (August 20, 2007)
• Senate HELP Committee Hearing on Long Term Care (July 10, 2007)
  • ANCOR Provider Shawn Griffin Written Testimony
  • ANCOR Provider Shawn Griffin Oral Testimony
  • HELP Committee Testimony
  • Senator Kennedy (D-MA) Opening Remarks
• Senate and House Members Introduce Long Term Care Insurance Legislation (July 10, 2007)
  • CLASS Act Fact Sheet
  • CLASS Act Q and A
  • CLASS Act Policy Grid
• Trading Places: Real Choice Systems Change Grants and the Movement to Community-Based Long-Term Care Supports (June 25, 2007)
• Long-Term Care Financing: Options for the Future (June 2007)
• Kaiser Issue Module on Long Term Care (March 2007)
• NCSL State Efforts to Reform Long Term Care (February 2007)
• CMS National Long Term Care Information Clearinghouse (January 2007)
• HHS Partners With States On Long-Term Care Education Efforts (September 26, 2006)
• 2005 White House Conference on Aging
  • Top 10 Resolutions of 2005 White House Conference on Aging (December 14, 2005)
  • 50 Resolutions Ranked as Voted by 2005 Conference on Aging (December 12, 2005)
• Residential Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Status and Trends Throuogh 2004; Chapter 4 (July 2005; Lakin, Prouty, et.al)
• Report Examines Perceptions and Views On Long- Term Care Costs and Quality (KFF, July 2005)
• Testimony on Future of Medicaid before Senate Special Aging Committee (Diane Rowland, KFF, June 28, 2005)
• Effect of Consumer Direction on Adults' Personal Care and Well-Being in Arkansas, New Jersey, and Florida (May 16, 2005)
  • Summary
  • Full report
• Georgetown University Announces New Health Care Research and Policy Center, Will Address Federal and State Approaches to Medicaid (May 10, 2005)
• National Commission Report Act Now Recommends Ways to Support Long-Term Care Workers, Improve Retention (National Commission on Nursing Workforce on Long-Term Care, April 2005)
• Addressing Liability Issues in Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance: The National Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Selected Other Models (HHS/ASPE, January 2004)
• ANCOR Working to Designate October 1-7, 2002 as Long Term Care Awareness Week (September 20, 2002)
• Senate Special Committee on Aging Releases Report on Long-Term Care (August 16, 2002)
• Who Will Care for Us? Addressing the Long-Term Care Workforce Crisis
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• Defining Common Ground:  Long Term Care Financing Reform 2001 (April 10, 2001)
• ANCOR Supports Citizens for Long Term Care Common Ground paper. (April 10, 2001)
• ANCOR Press Release (April 10, 2001)
• Citizens For Long Term Care Principles
• Citizens for Long Term Care Website