A1 Prescription Help for Elderly States are creating and expanding programs to help low-income elderly people pay for prescriptions, even as Congress appears to be floundering in efforts to add drug benefits to Medicare.
Paul Krugman's Feb. 28 column, "Leaving Children Behind," illustrates a major reason why the nation's poorest citizens are children, and why the least poor are elderly: states have too much power to set benefits and eligibility for the federal programs they administer aimed at children and families, programs like Medicaid and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
Truman himself, when he ran in 1948, chose an elderly Border State senator, Alben Barkley, of Kentucky, as his running mate.
Danny Alexander will warn his Conservative colleagues on Monday not to delay plans to reform social care for the elderly and state pensions, amid Treasury fears that the changes would cost too much.
But that system was dismantled 20 years ago, and now pension and health-care provision is patchy at best.China is running out of children to look after the elderly, a state of affairs often summed up by the formula "4-2-1": four grandparentwo two parents, one child.
Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic States accounted for most newly diagnosed cases among the US elderly, with state-specific rates up to 10× higher than national annual rates.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
That would leave the Treasury in the position of choosing whether to pay bondholders or soldiers, the elderly or states.
In addition, Mayor Tom Anderson says, a $1.7 million center for the elderly, largely state-financed, will offer computer and fitness classes, a dinner theater and line dancing.
