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Risk of Economic Hardship Among Older Adults

Risk of Economic Hardship Among Older Adults Issue Brief

Risk of Economic Hardship Among Older Adults ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (10 PDF pages)
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Risk of Economic Hardship Among Older Adults

Risk of Economic Hardship Among Older Adults Issue Brief

Risk of Economic Hardship Among Older Adults ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to HTML Version (10 PDF pages)
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Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long

Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long-Term Services and Supports Issue Brief

Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long-Term Services and Supports ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (10 PDF pages)
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Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long

Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long-Term Services and Supports Issue Brief

Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long-Term Services and Supports ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to HTML Version (10 PDF pages)
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Extended LTSS Utilization Makes Older Adults More

Extended LTSS Utilization Makes Older Adults More Reliant on Medicaid Issue Brief

Extended LTSS Utilization Makes Older Adults More Reliant on Medicaid Issue Brief ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson U.S. Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (9 PDF pages)
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Extended LTSS Utilization Makes Older Adults More

Extended LTSS Utilization Makes Older Adults More Reliant on Medicaid Issue Brief

Extended LTSS Utilization Makes Older Adults More Reliant on Medicaid Issue Brief ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson U.S. Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to HTML Version (9 PDF pages)
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Economic Hardship and Medicaid Enrollment in

Economic Hardship and Medicaid Enrollment in Later Life: Assessing the Impact of Disability, Health, and Marital Status Shocks

Economic Hardship and Medicaid Enrollment in Later Life: Assessing the Impact of Disability, Health, and Marital Status Shocks Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute January 2021 Link to Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (50 PDF pages)
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ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT

ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT CAREGIVERS: FINAL REPORT

As the nation ages and more individuals live longer with chronic illness and disabilities, the need for long-term services and supports (LTSS) will rise. Roughly 9.8 million Americans ages 65 and older living in settings other than nursing homes need care and help with personal activities, with 2.7 million requiring assistance with at least three
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ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT

ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT CAREGIVERS: FINAL REPORT

ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT CAREGIVERS: FINAL REPORT Stipica Mudrazija and Richard W. Johnson Urban Institute January 2020 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (68 PDF pages)
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Assessing the Out-of-Pocket Affordability of Long

Assessing the Out-of-Pocket Affordability of Long-Term Services and Supports Research Brief

Richard W. Johnson Urban Institute Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (14 PDF pages)
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Assessing the Out-of-Pocket Affordability of Long

Assessing the Out-of-Pocket Affordability of Long-Term Services and Supports Research Brief

This Research Brief summarizes recent research on older adults' LTSS risks and financial resources that the Urban Institute completed for ASPE. Except where noted, the studies used data from the Health and Retirement Study, a large, nationally representative survey that has been tracking older Americans since 1992.
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What Is the Lifetime Risk of Needing and

What Is the Lifetime Risk of Needing and Receiving Long-Term Services and Supports?

Richard W. Johnson Urban Institute Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (26 PDF pages)
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What Is the Lifetime Risk of Needing and

What Is the Lifetime Risk of Needing and Receiving Long-Term Services and Supports?

This brief provides new evidence on the lifetime risk that older adults will need LTSS and receive paid services and supports. Using longitudinal household survey data from 1995 to 2014 from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimated the likelihood that adults ever development disabilities after age 65 and receive paid care, including paid home
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How Many Older Adults Can Afford To Purchase Home

How Many Older Adults Can Afford To Purchase Home Care?

Richard W. Johnson and Claire Xiaozhi Wang Urban Institute Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (22 PDF pages)
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How Many Older Adults Can Afford To Purchase Home

How Many Older Adults Can Afford To Purchase Home Care?

To estimate home much paid home could possibly be purchased out of income and wealth, we estimated the share of older adults with sufficient monthly income to cover median home care costs as well as other living expenses. Our results show that many older adults with severe LTSS needs could not afford 2 years of paid home care without financial ass
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Later-Life Household Wealth Before and After

Later-Life Household Wealth Before and After Disability Onset

Richard W. Johnson Urban Institute Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (52 PDF pages)
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Later-Life Household Wealth Before and After

Later-Life Household Wealth Before and After Disability Onset

To assess the financial impact on families of LTSS needs and the potential for families to set aside funds to cover future LTSS spending, this brief examines later-life household wealth before and after disability onset. We followed over time a large sample of older adults who did not have any functional limitations at baseline, comparing the dist
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How Much Nursing Home Care Can Home Equity

How Much Nursing Home Care Can Home Equity Finance?

Stephan Lindner Urban Institute Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (39 PDF pages)
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How Much Nursing Home Care Can Home Equity

How Much Nursing Home Care Can Home Equity Finance?

Older adults who have income and assets have choices should they need long-term services and supports (LTSS). In this paper we estimate the extent to which older adults could potentially use home equity to help pay for nursing home care. By estimating the relationship between home equity and care costs, we provide an upper bound on how much assist
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Older Adults' Living Expenses and the

Older Adults' Living Expenses and the Adequacy of Income Allowances for Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services

Richard W. Johnson and Stephan Lindner Urban Institute Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (22 PDF pages)

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