Solving the social care dilemma? A responsible solution
This report looks at the challenges to government of social care pressures on local authority social care budgets and resentment from homeowners who risk having to sell their home to pay for long term social care. The report responds to these competing challenges by setting out a plan for a public not-for-profit company, owned and guaranteed by the state. The plans outlined would offer everyone approaching state pension age the opportunity to take out insurance against the need to sell their home or other assets, to pay for social care if and when they meet the official conditions for such care.ReportCivitas - publications...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 11, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs
Late-Career Unemployment Shocks
Samir Elsadek Mahmoudi (Georgia State University), Late-Career Unemployment Shocks, Pension Outcomes and Unemployment Insurance, Andrew Young School of Pol ’y Studies Research Paper Series (2020): In response to unemployment shocks, older workers deplete their 401(k)s, particularly after the waiving of the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 10, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 1st 2021
This study may have important implications for preventing cell senescence and aging-induced tendinopathy, as well as for the selection of novel therapeutic targets of chronic tendon diseases.
Our results showed that the treatment of bleomycin, a DNA damaging agent, induced rat patellar TSC (PTSC) cellular senescence. The senescence was characterized by an increase in the senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity, as well as senescence-associated changes in cell morphology. On the other hand, rapamycin could extend lifespan in multiple species, including yeast, fruit flies, and mice, by decelerating DNA damage ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Economic Research on Treating Aging to Extend Healthy Longevity
In one sense, there is an enormous wealth of research on the economics of longer lives. This is a byproduct of the operations of sizable pensions and life insurance industries, dependent as they are on successfully predicting future trends in life span. On the other hand, outside this somewhat narrow scope, most concerned with the gain of a tenth of a year here and the loss of a tenth of a year there, there is comparatively little economic work that is directly tied to the research and advocacy communities engaged in trying to treat aging and greatly lengthen healthy human lifespan. That will change as the longevity indust...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 22nd 2021
In conclusion, long term LRIC could decrease blood pressure and ameliorate vascular remodeling via inflammation regulation.
The Damage of a Heart Attack Causes the Immune System to Overreact
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/02/the-damage-of-a-heart-attack-causes-the-immune-system-to-overreact/
Researchers here note a mechanism that causes T cells of the adaptive immune system to spur chronic inflammation and tissue damage following a heart attack. As the researchers note, not all inflammation is the same. Some is maladaptive, and this is particularly the case in older individuals. The aged immun...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Most Children Born this Century Will Live to be Centenarians if Present Trends in Longevity Continue
This article reviews some key strands of demographic research on past trends in human longevity and explores possible future trends in life expectancy at birth. Demographic data on age-specific mortality are used to estimate life expectancy, and validated data on exceptional life spans are used to study the maximum length of life. In the countries doing best each year, life expectancy started to increase around 1840 at a pace of almost 2.5 years per decade. This trend has continued until the present. Contrary to classical evolutionary theories of senescence and contrary to the predictions of many experts, the frontier of s...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 19, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
NHS Pension Scheme pension flexibility: response to consultation
This report contains a summary of the responses and what the next steps will be.Consultation outcomeDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 4, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Changes to the NHS Pension Scheme regulations
Department of Health and Social Care -The Department of Health and Social Care is consulting on proposals to change NHS Pension Scheme regulations. The Draft Regulations propose amendments to the regulations that provide the rules for the NHS Pension Schemes and the NHS Injury Benefits Scheme in England and Wales. The closing date for comments is 8 April 2021.ConsultationProposed changes to the regulationsDepartment of Health and Social Care - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 28, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
How not to lose money because of Alzheimer ’s disease
Researchers from Maryland and Michigan recently published an article showing that six years prior to their diagnosis, individuals developing Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder were more likely to miss paying a bill compared to older adults without such a diagnosis (7.7% versus 7.3%), and they were also more likely to develop subprime credit scores (7.9% versus 6.9%). As the authors concede, there were a number of problems with the study, including unequal matching of the average age of the groups (79.4 versus 74.0 years), which could mean that the results were actually due to age, rather than Alzheimer’s disease...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew E. Budson, MD Tags: Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving Healthy Aging Memory Source Type: blogs
The Economics of Divestment
Jeffrey Miron andPeter Van DorenThe comptroller of New York State, Thomas P. DiNapoli,recentlyannounced that the New York State pension fund will divest itself of many fossil fuel stocks within five years. He said, “investing for the low‐carbon future is essential to protect the fund’s long‐term value.” He had resisted such a strategy for many years because of his fiduciary duty to fund the retirement benefits of state and local public sector workers.Investment restrictions are increasingly common. 26 percent of all U.S. professionally managed assets —worth $12 trillion—are governed by investing li...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 4, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
Cut Regulation to Reduce Marijuana Corruption
Chris EdwardsMona Zhang has a good piece on marijuana and political corruptionat Politico. She writes:In the past decade, 15 states have legalized a regulated marijuana market for adults over 21, and another 17 have legalized medical marijuana. But in their rush to limit the numbers of licensed vendors and give local municipalities control of where to locate dispensaries, they created something else: A market for local corruption.Zhang describes how the mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts, allegedly tried to extort $600,000 from cannabis companies in exchange for granting them sales licenses. She discusses nu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 29, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Climbing the Pension Mountain: A Review of Michael Otsuka ’s 2020 Uehiro Centre Lecture Series
Written by Professor Larry Locke (University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and LCC International University) On three successive Tuesdays last November, Michael Otsuka of the London School of Economics delivered the annual Uehiro Centre Lecture Series. The Series, entitled “How to Pool Risk Across Generations”, focused on the ethics of pension reform. Otsuka attacked the real-world problem […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 15, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Ethics Tags: Ethics Health Care Event Summary Guest Post Pensions public discourse syndicated Uehiro Lectures Source Type: blogs
The “Right” to Health Care in America
By MIKE MAGEE
I’ve been working on a Spring lecture for President’s College at the University of Hartford titled, “The Constitution and Your ‘Right to Health Care’ in America.”
My description reads, “This lecture explores the recent political history and legal controversy surrounding attempts to establish universal health coverage in America. “Is health care a right?” viewed within the context of the Bill of Rights and especially the 9th and 10th Amendments?”
Self-described libertarian-conservative John R. Graham, a health policy analyst in the Trump administration...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Fixing social care: the fundamental choice
This report weighs up the three leading options for social care reform, ranking them by cost, political feasibility and impact on supply. It concludes that, of the options being considered, a pension-style model would be most cost-effective, while also increasing supply and meeting the increasing demand for social care. It would also better protect people ’s assets and benefit a greater number of families.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 31, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs
Kristi Noem and South Dakota
Chris EdwardsKristi Noem will address the Republican convention tonight. South Dakota ’s governor leads one of the freest states, according tothis analysis. South Dakota hasone of the lowest state ‐local tax burdens in the nation, and Noem has helped to keep it that way.South Dakota has no individual or corporate income tax. Sales taxes account for 83 percent of state ‐level tax revenues, which creates exceptional budget stability over economic cycles. Ananalysis by Pew found that South Dakota has the lowest revenue volatility among the states. By contrast, the revenues of states such as California gyrate widel...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 26, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
