Presidential Symposium: Looking Over the Horizon: States as the Laboratory for Policy Innovations
Howard Degenholtz

TL;DR
This symposium explores how states serve as testing grounds for innovative policies supporting older adults, highlighting programs and lessons learned.
Contribution
The paper presents state-level innovations in policy for older adults and emphasizes their role as models for national approaches.
Findings
State demonstrations have pioneered using Medicaid for home-based long-term care.
Innovative programs for dementia caregivers and family caregiver payment models are being developed.
Researchers can help study and advance these state-level innovations.
Abstract
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis suggested that states are the laboratories of democracy. In a year in which so much attention is at the federal level, this year we will focus on the ways in which we turn our gaze to the states as sources to learn about innovations in policies that support older adults. States have long been the incubators for new ideas that have had dramatic impact. For example, the notion of using Medicaid dollars to provide long-term services and supports in people’s own homes rather than in institutional settings had its start through state demonstrations. This symposium will feature innovative state programs that support caregivers for people with dementia, the creation of a long-term care insurance program, and models for paying family caregivers. Speakers will describe how states have created these programs and learned from each other, notable accomplishments…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGeriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Policy Transfer and Learning · Technology Use by Older Adults
