LeadingAge Policy Statements

LeadingAge has the knowledge, the insights and the passion to expand the world of possibilities for aging. This page features information that can help you learn more about our field and how public policies affect our members and the people they serve.

Featured Policy Statements

2011 Issue Brief on the CLASS Act

The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program creates a consumer-financed, premium-based, voluntary insurance plan to help people finance whatever long-term services and supports they come to need. More

2011 Medicaid Block Grant Issue Brief

Under the guise of “reform,” substantial cutbacks in federal Medicaid funding have been proposed by transforming the program into a block grant or imposing a global spending cap. These kinds of cutbacks in Medicaid funding represent bad ethics and bad economy. More

2011 Senior Housing Issue Brief

LeadingAge is encouraged by the administration’s proposals to increase opportunities to merge services and the HUD Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program to allow seniors to age in place. More

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