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Home Care

This section covers advocacy and regulatory issues relating to private duty home care, homemaker services, companions and personal care aides, Medicaid personal care services and in-home services reimbursed through the Older Americans Act funding and Veterans Administration. 

LeadingAge provides updates on funding and regulations that impact home care, research reports released about home care, and resources and information to assist nonprofit home care providers to operate quality services and remain financially viable in a competitive market.

  1. Advocate for Older Adults at the Leadership Summit

    This year, our members will be tackling the tough policy issues that face LeadingAge members every day: During their meetings with congressional offices, LeadingAge advocates will be highlighting the need to fix our workforce crisis in aging services. This includes asking Congress to pass H.R. 1265, the Nursing ...

  2. 2020 Budget Proposal Would Slash Funding for Aging Services

    For the budget category of domestic discretionary programs, which includes senior housing and home- and community-based services, the 2020 Trump budget invokes the draconian spending caps imposed under the Budget Control Act of 2011. In recent years, Congress has waived these caps because appropriators could not reasonably ...

  3. LeadingAge Offers Provider View on CMS Proposed 2020 MA Plan Policies and Rates

    LeadingAge also asked CMS to provide more detail on the types of benefits a MA plan may offer under the new Special Supplemental Benefits for Chronically Ill policy and clarification on how these customized, person-centered benefits will be authorized.  Additional comments were offered recommending ways for CMS to reduce ...

  4. LeadingAge Analysis of Proposed Veterans Community Care Program Rule

    On February 22, 2019, VA published a proposed rule to implement the Veterans Community Care Program as part of the VA MISSION ...

  5. How Tech Can Disrupt Senior Living

    Recent survey findings indicated that technology has a powerful potential to disrupt senior living—as does older adults’ increased ability to remain independent and out of congregate housing until later in life.     Almost 80% of survey respondents think technology, products, and services that ...