Long-Term Care in America: The Crisis All of Us Will Face in Our Lifetimes

There is a looming crisis in our nation’s capacity to provide long-term care. The needs keep increasing while more and more of our aging seniors and large numbers of disabled can no longer gain access to affordable care.

The markers are serious—more than one-half of Americans age 65 and older are expected to need help with activities of daily living, whether in a nursing home, assisted living facility, or at home; U. S. seniors are projected to outnumber children under 18 by 2035; dementia i...