Webinar Information
Date:
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Time:
2:00–3:00 p.m. CT
Location:
Zoom Webinar (link will be sent to attendees closer to the event)
Cost:
Free, but registration is required.
Accommodations: Live-captioning in English will be provided for attendees. American Sign Language interpretation is only available upon request due to interpreter shortages throughout Iowa. ASL and other accommodation requests can be made by emailing harkininstitute@drake.edu.
Webinar Summary
The cost of long-term care has nearly doubled from the early 2000s to 2024, both for at home care and nursing home care. These costs are out of reach for everyone except the wealthiest households. Long-term care costs are internalized by caregiver families in some combination of the following: diminished or lost earned income, early retirement, direct caregiving expenditures, and mental and physical health issues. There are a variety of policy options to address this economic burden on families across the income distribution. Join us for a free webinar featuring a panel of leading experts on LTC policies to learn more about current state, national, and international policies addressing long-term care needs.
Webinar Panelists:
Anqi (Angie) Chen
Associate Director of Savings and Household Finance, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Anqi (Angie) Chen is the Associate Director of Savings and Household Finance at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. She is dedicated to promoting lifelong financial security. Her current research revolves around debt burdens, multigenerational impacts of low savings, health and long-term care risks, and effective measures of well-being. She is also in charge of the Center’s well-known National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI).
Her research has been published in academic journals and widely cited in major news media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The Economist. She is also a frequent invited speaker at industry, policy, and academic convenings, including at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Department of Labor ERISA Advisory Council, TIAA, Bank of America, and Vanguard.
Prior to joining the Center, Chen worked in banking, evaluating the credit risks of real estate portfolios. Chen is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and holds an MBA and MSc in Applied Economics from Boston College.
Nicole Jorwic
Chief Program Officer, Caring Across Generations
Nicole Jorwic is an experienced policy professional supporting advancements in disability, aging, and direct care workforce policy and mobilization. Nicole is the Chief Program Officer for Caring Across Generations. Prior to her current roles, Nicole was Senior Director of Public Policy and Senior Executive Officer of State Advocacy at The Arc of the United States. Before coming to DC to work on Federal Advocacy, Nicole served as Senior Policy Advisor and Manager of the Employment First Initiative in Illinois. Prior to that appointment, Nicole was the CEO/President of the Institute on Public Policy for People with Disabilities. Nicole is also an accomplished special education attorney.
Nicole leads and supports many coalitions to advance the priorities of the care movement, including strengthening and expanding access to Medicaid, home and community-based care, and better pay for direct care workers. Nicole is a member of the President’s Committee on People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Nicole is, most importantly, a sibling to her brother Chris, who is 35 and has autism, a former direct care worker, and on the care team for her three grandparents in their 90s.
Allison Cook
Founder, Better Aging and Policy Consulting
Allison Cook is the founder of Better Aging and Policy Consulting. She works with an array of organizations to build a system that better supports older adults and those who care for them. Recent projects have included exploring alternative LTSS financing models with MIT CoLab, exploring how to invest in the home care workforce with the National Academy of Social Insurance, facilitating philanthropy’s role in building publicly-supported care infrastructure across the lifespan with the Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund, and supporting innovative start-ups in the field of aging with Mary Furlong and Associates. Prior to opening her business she worked at PHI, focusing on policies that support the direct care workforce. She started off her career as a home health aide, going on to work at the Medicare Rights Center after receiving her Master’s in Public Health from Brown University. She also volunteers on the Advisory Committee for EmergingAging NYC, a networking group for emerging professionals in the field of aging. This varied background provides her with unique insight into our system and how to improve it.
Benjamin W. Veghte
Director, WA Cares Fund
Benjamin W. Veghte is Director of the WA Cares Fund, the nation’s first universal long-term care insurance program in Washington State. He is a Board member of the American Society on Aging, an MIT CoLab Mel King Community Fellow, and a member of the Care Guild, a group of 125 innovators redesigning care for the 21st century. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. Veghte is an expert on U.S. and OECD social policy with recent publications on the German and Dutch long-term care systems. His research and policy work focus on developing new policies that improve the economic security of families and support them in balancing work and care. He taught comparative social policy and comparative politics as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen, Germany, until 2008. He worked as a Social Policy consultant for the European Union, working on projects which advised EU accession countries on how to harmonize their social policies with EU standards. Veghte was Vice President for Policy at the National Academy of Social Insurance from 2015-18. From 2018- 2020, he led the research portfolio at Caring Across Generations.
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