United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
Hearings

2000

11/21/00   Forum: Living Longer, Living Better: The Challenge to Policymakers
09/28/00   The Nursing Home Initiative: A Two-Year Progress Report
09/21/00   Pension Tension: Does The pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Deliver for Retirees?
09/18/00   Barriers to Hospice Care: Are We Shortchanging Dying Patients?
09/13/00   Long-Term Care Insurance: Protecting Consumers from Hidden Rate Hikes
09/05/00   Nursing Home Bankruptcies: What Caused Them?
08/10/00   Protecting Seniors From Fraud, Indianapolis, IN
07/27/00   Nursing Home Residents: Short-Changed by Staff Shortages, Part II
07/17/00   The End of Life: Improving Care, Easing Pain and Helping Families
07/11/00   Death Planning Made Difficult: The Danger of Living Trust Scams
06/26/00   Kidney Dialysis Patients: A Population at Undue Risk?
06/05/00   The Cash Balance Conundrum: How to Promote Pensions Without Harming Participants
05/02/00   Inviting Fraud: Has the Social Security Administration Allowed Some Payees to Deceive the Elderly and Disabled?
04/10/00   Funerals and Burials: Protecting Consumers from Bad Practices
04/03/00   Now Hiring: The Rising Demand for Older Workers
03/27/00   Income Taxes: The Solution to the Social Security and Medicare Crisis?
03/15/00    Elder Fraud and Abuse: New Challenges in the Digital Economy, Portland, OR
03/06/00   Colon Cancer: Greater Use of Screenings Would Save Lives
02/08/00   The Right Medicine? Examining the Breaux-Frist Prescription for Saving Medicare

1999

12/14/99   Funerals, Burials and Consumers, Clinton, IA and Cedar Rapids, IA
11/08/99   The Boomers are Coming: Challenges for Aging in the New Millennium
11/04/99   HCFA Regional Offices: Inconsistent, Uneven, Unfair
11/03/99   Forum: Nursing Home Residents: Shortchanged by Staff Shortages
10/11/99   The Boomers are Coming: The Challenge fo Family Caregiving, Monroe, LA
10/04/99   Long-Term Care and the Role of Family Caregivers: A Rhode Island perspective, Cranston, RI
09/23/99    Forum: Consumers Assess the Nursing Home Initiative
09/14/99   Going the Distance: Senior Athletes and the Benefits of Exercise
08/12/99    Making Long-Term Care Affordable, Indianapolis, IN
07/20/99   Drugstore Surprise: The Impact of Drug Switching on Older Americans
06/30/99   The Nursing Home Initiative: Results at Year One
06/17/99   Learning To Save: Innovations in the Pursuit of Income Security
06/10/99   Forum: Passport to Independence: Battling the Leading Causes of Disability Among Seniors
06/01/99   The Impact of Social Security Reform on Women
05/24/99   Too Much Information? The Impact of OASIS on Access to Home Health Care
04/26/99   Shopping for Assisted Living: What customers Need to Make the Best Buy
04/13/99    Beneficiary Beware: Inadequate Review of Medicare Managed Care Plans Results in Incomplete Information for Consumers
03/23/99   Long-Term Care for the 21st Century: A Common Sense Proposal to Support Family Caregiver
03/22/99   Residents at Risk? Weaknesses Persist in Nursing Home Complaint Investigation and Enforcement
03/01/99   Social Security Reform: Is More Money the Answer?
02/22/99   Women and Social Security Reform: Are Individual Accounts the Answer?