Racial and ethnic disparities and aging needs among older adults persist today despite the raft of health care changes that occurred after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, a new study shows.

Researchers from the University of Michigan and Syracuse University found that wide disparities in difficulties with daily tasks—and who can afford to pay for care to help meet those needs—remain. However, those disparities were not present among the poorest Americans, they say. 

"Hoping America's long-term care problems away won't work," said Geoffrey Hoffman, assistant professor in the School of Nursing. "Policies not directly targeting the millions of Americans with unmet needs won't do the job. We need direct solutions to ease burdens that disproportionately impact minority groups, older Americans and their family members."

Learn more: https://news.umich.edu/racial-ethnic-disparities-in-long-term-care-remain-among-older-adults-despite-passage-of-aca/

U-M Nursing's Geoffrey Hoffman on racial, ethnic disparities in aging since the Affordable Care Act

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U-M Nursing's Geoffrey Hoffman on racial, ethnic disparities in aging since the Affordable Care Act

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