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Long-Term Services & Supports, Long-Term Care

ASPE conducts research, analysis, and evaluation of policies related to the long-term care and personal assistance needs of people of all ages with chronic disabilities. ASPE’s work also highlights the financing, delivery, organization, and quality of long-term services and supports, including those supported or financed by private insurers, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Administration for Community Living (ACL). This includes assessing the interaction between health care, post-acute care, chronic care, long-term care, and supportive services needs of persons with disabilities across the age spectrum; determining service use and program participation patterns; and coordinating the development of long-term care data and policies that affect the characteristics, circumstances, and needs of people with long-term care needs, including older adults and people with disabilities. 

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

More than one-half of older adults, regardless of their lifetime earnings, are projected to experience serious LTSS needs and use some paid LTSS after turning 65. 

Older adults with limited lifetime earnings are more likely to develop serious LTSS needs than those with more earnings. 

However, fifty-six percent of older adults in the top lifetime earnings quintile receive some paid LTSS, and the likelihood of nursing home care does not vary much by lifetime earnings. Learn more.

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Integrated Care and Health Outcomes for Dual Eligible Individuals

This report examines how integrated care models served full-benefit dually eligible Medicare‑Medicaid beneficiaries in 2021. It compares three types of integrated plans—PACE, FIDE‑SNPs, and D‑SNPs—to standard Medicare Advantage plans, with a focus on hospitalizations, emergency department visits, nursing facility use, home‑ and community‑based services, and mortality.
Report

Environmental Scan of Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency for People with Disabilities

In the U.S., about 11 percent of people ages 18 to 64 living in the community have a disability. Health conditions that cause disability can negatively affect the human capital development of children and the ability of adults to engage in the labor force.
ASPE Issue Brief

Accelerating Innovative and Effective Pediatric Health Care Delivery Systems: Interventions and Value-Based Care Models for Children with Chronic Health Conditions and Complex Needs

Children, youth, and families have unique health needs, which set the foundation for health across the life course; chronic conditions now affect nearly one in three U.S. children, with disproportionate prevalence in those enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP.
ASPE Data Point

HHS Standard Values for Regulatory Analysis

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) analyzes the benefits, costs, and other impacts of significant proposed and final rulemakings, consistent with the requirements of several executive orders and statutes. HHS develops these analyses according to technical guidance published by the U.S.
ASPE Issue Brief

Review of Federal and State Caregiver Tax Credit Laws and Bills

Unpaid caregivers play a vital role in supporting older adults and people with disabilities to remain in their homes and communities. They often face substantial financial and emotional strain from the burden of caregiving. In response, federal and state policymakers have advanced proposals to offer targeted tax relief to caregivers.
Report

Identifying Disability with Medicaid Claims Data

Medicaid provides health insurance coverage and services and supports for people with disabilities, as well as groups of children and adults based on financial eligibility.
Research Brief

Medicare Hospice Use Patterns Among Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementias Compared to Those With Other Terminal Diagnoses

This study examined how people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) use hospice compared with patients who have other terminal diagnoses, as well as how hospice characteristics shape those care patterns.
Report

Longitudinal Analysis of Medical and Long-Term Services and Supports Use in the National Health and Aging Trends Study

This study examines the use of medical services and long-term services and supports by the population over age 65 over time.
ASPE Issue Brief

Use of Medicaid Personal Care Services in 2019 and 2020

This issue brief looks at changes in the utilization of personal care services among Medicaid beneficiaries from 2019 to 2020.
ASPE Issue Brief, Fact Sheet

Health Care and Child Care Costs Contribute to the Unsustainable and Growing Cost of Raising a Family in America

The cost of raising a family in America is high and continues to rise, with inflation rising by 23 percent between 2020 and 2025. For working families, some of the largest nondiscretionary expenses continue to be health care and child care.