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Older adults’ vulnerability declines soon after moving into senior housing: study … Price of nursing home staffing mandate is $6.8B, 100K more workers, analysis finds … Veterans Homes of California...

Low-income older Californians soon won’t need to prove their asset levels to be eligible for Medicaid long-term care, after the approval of a state plan amendment.

CMS extends spousal impoverishment rules for married applicants, HCBS recipients … PSA campaign targets early detection of Alzheimer’s in Hispanic/Latino community … Florida’s first LGBTQ+-centric...

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Ready to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind them, senior living executives are preparing to push forward with growth plans — some in surprising ways, according to the newly released results of a recent...

Compensation spending requirement, quality measures are the focus of comments that groups submitted to the federal government.

Updated guidance released Wednesday by the federal government will extend state home- and community-based waivers that had been implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The move has care,...

The White House on Wednesday called on Congress “to improve and expand home- and community-based services so more seniors and people with disabilities can live independently in their own homes.” The...

As assisted living provider advocacy groups try to influence federal home- and community-based services-related policy, their comments are joined by thousands of others, some in agreement with industry...

A new white paper from LeadingAge recommends a two-year enforcement moratorium on the federal government’s home- and community-based services settings final rule, saying that it is flawed policy.