Learn more about the Center's policy efforts.
NCFS Caregiver Profile: A Closer Look at Spousal Caregivers
Spousal caregivers with disabilities face a litany of complications while trying to tend to aging or ailing spouses and partners: health problems, mental health difficulties, work issues, even financial and healthcare strains - learn more from the inaugural white paper from our Center.
Making Spousal Impoverishment Protections Permanent
A recent Health Affairs blog post from Everette James and Meredith Hughes discusses the need to make spousal impoverishment protections for Medicaid permanent. Spousal impoverishment protections help keep a spouse from having to spend down and impoverish themselves in order for the other spouse to qualify for long-term services and supports.