WASHINGTON — The Democratic head of the New School and a Republican former House speaker are urging presidential candidates to take up the issue of long-term care for elderly Americans, a problem that they warn will worsen with the retirement of the baby boom generation in the coming decades.
Bob Kerrey, the university president and a former Nebraska senator, joined with Newt Gingrich yesterday to release a 94-page report calling for a federal overhaul of the long-term care system that would be financed with a combination of public and private dollars.
