Let’s expand access to PACE to improve eldercare

Let’s expand access to PACE to improve eldercare
By Shawn Bloom
Modern Healthcare
December 4, 2023
... Today, PACE participants are, for the most part, those who receive both Medicare and Medicaid benefits. However, it could act as the desired model of care for millions of Medicare beneficiaries who aren’t eligible for Medicaid. In fact, many impartial experts and think tanks, such as the Milken Institute, the Bipartisan Policy Center, Duke University Margolis Center for Health Policy and AARP’s Public Policy Institute, have cited PACE as a potential solution for the nation’s eldercare crisis, which will only worsen as the baby boomers continue to flood the aging and nursing services infrastructure.
[Editor’s Note: The author is President and CEO of the National PACE Association.]