The United States Need For Better Long-Term Services and Support For the Elderly

Nina Kohn, the David M. Levy Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Online Education in the College of Law, was quoted in the Politico story ‘We Don’t Fix This Because We Just Don’t Care About Old People’

Kohn discussed the enormous costs associated with long-term services and support for aging populations. She discusses the desire for family caregiving and at-home options rather than nursing homes for the elderly, sayin, “The nursing home industry is very powerful in state legislatures. It’s really state sponsored market-failure. You are propping up an industry that people don’t’ want to use.”