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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I think it can be tempting to kind of silo it to, oh, that’s just aging and independent services. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis.