Howard Gleckman

The message is clear then that providers who want to succeed while on this recruitment journey must prepare for some key challenges; chief among them is the idea that these workers, like any others, will...

If you, like me, completely missed the 2005 White House Conference on Aging (or if you weren’t in the field at the time), it’s fair to ask just what the heck it and does. And what it means...

State budget cuts and an intimidating national deficit spell big trouble for Medicaid, which funds a good portion of long-term care services. It’s time to replace it with a broad-based insurance...

This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C., held a briefing on the CLASS Act, a long-term care insurance plan that generally has garnered praise from the long-term care community.

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently held a briefing on the much-touted CLASS Act. There was much praise to go around. I heartily disagreed with most of it.

A new book should be on the required reading list of novices and season veterans of long-term care. It is called “Caring for our Parents: Inspiring Stories of Families Seeking New Solutions to America’s...