June 29, 2011
Dr. Robyn Stone, executive director of the LeadingAge Center for Applied Research, in a new Journal of Aging and Social Policy article praises the work of the Elderworkforce Alliance to ensure the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) acknowledged the additional demands that its provisions will place on the eldercare workforce.
The ACA promises to transform the way our nation delivers and pays for long-term services and supports, but the new law can't be successfully implemented without the creation of a “substantially different health and long-term care workforce than exists today,” according to Dr. Stone.
ACA: Workforce Challenges and Opportunities
According to Stone, the ACA established a number of demonstration programs and payment reforms to encourage better service coordination and integration for older adults with multiple chronic illnesses and disabilities. At the same time, the new health care reform law also called for an expansion of home and community-based services as a way to increase choice and lower care costs for older people in need of long-term services and supports. Both approaches to reform have important implications for the eldercare workforce, she says.
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