Long-Term Care Issues

Find information on our systemic advocacy efforts on our Advocacy Center main page. Below, find information on important long-term care news and systemic issues.

• Where Do the Billions of Dollars Go?
  
  This Consumer Voice report documents how each year  nursing homes funnel billions of dollars through related party companies (companies they own) with little to no oversight by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). 
  
  
• Racial Disparities in Nursing Facilities - and How to Address Them
  
  This Justice in Aging issue brief, Racial Disparities in Nursing Facilities—and How to Address Them, reviews relevant research into disparities in nursing facility care in the following areas: admissions, hospitalization of residents, staffing levels, other quality measures, and COVID-19 infections and deaths. The paper then evaluates the implications of that research and offers five policy recommendations to improve Medicaid long-term care in order to better and more equitably meet the needs of all older adults.
  
  

• Wide-ranging systemic changes needed to transform nursing homes to meet needs of residents, families, and staff 
  
  Providing high-quality care for all nursing home residents requires collaboration among federal and state governments, health care providers, payers, and others to completely transform the way nursing home care is delivered, financed, and regulated, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 
  
  
• Dementia patients died at higher rates during pandemic
  
  Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia—particularly nursing home residents and racial minorities—died at higher rates than others during the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a large study published in JAMA Neurology.
  
  
• View Consumer Voice's Racial Inequities in Long-Term Care page to access information, research, and resources on racial and ethnic disparities in long-term care.