Aging Policy and Politics in the Trump Era: Implications for Older Americans

ISBN-13: 9780367075804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Edward Alan Miller; Pamela Nadash; Michael K. Gusmano

Opis

This book explores how Trump administration policies are likely to significantly undermine the social safety net for older Americans, with respect to long-term care, housing, healthcare, and retirement. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The state of aging policy and politics in the Trump era  2. Financing long-term services and supports: challenges, goals, and needed reforms  3. The housing challenges of low-income older adults and the role of federal policy  4. Collision course? Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and the fate of Medicare  5. A series of unfortunate events: implications of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act for older adults  6. Undermining the ACA through the executive branch and federalism: what the Trump administration’s approach to health reform means for older Americans  7. The Trump Administration’s assault on health and social programs: potential consequences for older Hispanics  8. Trump and the GOP agenda: implications for retirement policy  9. Policy responses during the Trump administration to older people’s growing economic risk exposure  10. Draining the swamp while making America great again: senior dissonance in the age of Trump  11. Medicaid retrenchment politics: fragmented or unified?  12. Organizing seniors to protect the health safety net: the way forward