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April begins Autism Acceptance Month
General News Sources:
- Frequently Asked Questions regarding Georgia Tax Refund
- President Joe Biden to propose new 20% minimum billionaire tax
- Final Funding for Aging Services Falls Short of Original Proposals
- Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law Now Extends To Residents Of Other States
- Families Fighting For Justice Long After Covid Deaths In Nursing Homes
- The Impact of Climate Change: Why Older Adults are Vulnerable
- “I’m Getting Older Too”: Challenges and Benefits Experienced by Very Old Parents and Their Children
- National Healthcare Decisions Day Is April 16: The Importance of Advance Care Planning
- $15 Million verdict against Gwinnett Nursing Home
Caregiving News:
- Caregivers need to save for retirement, too. Here’s how to stay on track
- Now may be the best time for working caregivers to ask for more
Consumer Protection, Scams:
- Gang Prosecution Legislation Gets Final Passage, Provides Additional Resource to Keep Georgians Safe
- Belle Fourche woman found guilty of elder abuse, financial exploitation
- Preventing Elder Fraud: Nationwide Partners With Carefull
Health and Healthcare Related News:
- National Health Expenditure Projections, 2021–30: Growth To Moderate As COVID-19 Impacts Wane (Health Affairs)
- Former nurse guilty of homicide in medication error death
- Best Practices for Increasing Compassion Resiliency and Moral Wellness in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings
- Cases of cognitive decline in older people more than doubles in ten years
- Do older adults using statins have lower risk of developing Parkinsonism later?
- NIH: Researchers generate the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome
- The Imperative to Reimagine Assisted Living
- Best Practices Guide for COVID-19: Infection Control and Prevention in Nursing Homes
- Best Practices for Promoting Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being Among Nursing Home Staff
- Best Practices for Promoting Emotional Well-Being in Nursing Home Residents
- NIH: Attention to objects in peripheral vision is not driven by tiny eye movements
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid:
- Bill to End Medicaid Estate Recovery Introduced | HR 6698
- Latest Medicare Enrollment figures available
- CMS March News
Selected highlights in national health expenditures by major payer include:
Medicare: Medicare spending growth is projected to average 7.2% over 2021-2030, the fastest rate among the major payers. Projected spending growth of 11.3% in 2021 is expected to be mainly influenced by an assumed acceleration in utilization growth, while growth in 2022 of 7.5% is expected to reflect more moderate growth in use, as well as lower fee-for-service payment rate updates and the phasing in of sequestration cuts. Spending is projected to exceed $1 trillion for the first time in 2023. By 2030, Medicare spending growth is expected to slow to 4.3% as the Baby Boomers are no longer enrolling and as further increases in sequestration cuts occur.
Medicaid: Average annual growth of 5.6% is projected for Medicaid spending for 2021-2030. Medicaid spending growth is expected to have accelerated to 10.4% in 2021, associated with rapid gains in enrollment. Over 2022 and 2023, Medicaid spending growth is expected to slow to 5.7% and 2.7%, respectively, as a result of projected enrollment declines, after the end of the COVID-19 PHE, when the continuous enrollment condition under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act expires and states begin to disenroll beneficiaries no longer eligible for Medicaid. Over 2025-2030, spending growth is projected to increase an average 5.6%, in part due to the expiration of Disproportionate Share Hospital payment cap reductions set for late-2027. Spending is projected to exceed $1 trillion for the first time in 2028.
Private Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket: For 2021-2030, private health insurance spending growth is projected to average 5.7%. A rebound in utilization is expected to primarily influence private health insurance spending growth over 2021 (6.3%) and 2022 (8.3%), and then normalize through 2024. Over 2025-2030, as health spending trends by private payers tend to be influenced on a lagged basis by changes in income growth, average growth for private health insurance spending is then expected to slow to 4.8% by 2030 in response to slowing income growth earlier in the projection period. Out-of-pocket expenditures are projected to grow at an average rate of 4.6% over 2021-2030 and to represent 9% of total spending by 2030 (ultimately falling from its current historic low of 9.4% in 2020).
Special Needs News:
- Therapy dog cartoon
- Letter from Dept. of Education: Accommodations to ensure safe in-person learning for students with disabilities
- How Mental Illness Affects Your Identity
- People with Mental Disorders, General Comorbid Conditions Have 11-Year Reduced Life Expectancy
- Biden Budget Calls For Increase In Special Education Spending
- Trauma out of traffic stops: Developmentally disabled learn how to react to police
- NIH: Amygdala overgrowth that occurs in autism spectrum disorder may begin during infancy
Events, Webcasts & Podcasts:
- Preparing Federal Employee Retirement Forms: Costly Errors and How to Avoid Them, Wednesday, April 6 | 2 p.m. ET
- Elder Justice Decision-Making Capacity Symposium: The Role of Decision-Making Capacity in Elder Justice Cases that Reach Courts, April 19-21
- 2022 National Elder & Dependent Adult Abuse Symposium, April 27-29, 2022
- ACL Webinar Series: Engaging Community Health Workers in Evidence-Based Programs
- 2022 National Voices of Medicare Summit & Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecture, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 (Kaiser Family Foundation)
- 2022 NAELA Annual Conference, May 13-14, 2022, Scottsdale, Arizona
- TBA Elder law Forum, July 15, 2022
- NELF 2022 Forum, September 9-10 in Kansas City, MO
- Elder Abuse Conference (Oregon AG), October 20-21, 2021
- National Conference on Guardianship, Dallas, TX, October 22-25, 2022
- CareFreeMe – Virutal Study for memory loss patients considering retiring from driving
Government Sources:
- GAO: Older Workers: Opioid Misuse and Employment Outcomes
- Accessible Lavatories on Single-Aisle Aircraft: Part 2
- NIH: Good hydration may reduce long-term risks for heart failure
- LOC: Parents & Caregivers
- NIH: Getting sufficient sleep reduces calorie intake
- ACL: Closing DD Awareness Month and Introducing ACL’s New Commissioner on Disabilities
- GAO: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: Review of the Audit of the FY 2021 Financial Statements
- GAO: DOD Expects New IT System Capabilities to Improve Other Health Insurance Processing
- NIH experts discuss controlling COVID-19 in commentary on herd immunity
Retirement and Financial News:
- Roth IRAs: Are they right for your client?
- House Ready To Vote On Raising RMD Age To 75
- What Retirement Means for Your Taxes
- ‘SECURE 2.0’ would further expand retirement savings options
- Three Exceptions to the Pro-Rata Rule (Ed Slott)
- The pandemic has widened the gap between women and men’s retirement savings. What to know about catching up
- Roth IRA Distributions and IRA Rollovers (Ed Slott)
Estate Planning:
Legal News:
- Tennessee Worker’s Comp Board Affirms Health Care Worker’s claim
- Tennessee case on interpretation of a Will
- A Special Alert about Medicare’s Future | Don’t Let Traditional Medicare “Wither on the Vine*”
Not New, But Worth Remembering:
- Genworth Cost of Care Survey
- VA: Manual 2022 Changes by Date
- World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is June 15th
- KHN Morning Briefing
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