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LTSS Center to lead three-year research project on “overlooked middle” for California Department of Aging

The California Department of Aging awarded a three-year, $4.3 million contract to the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston—through the center’s partner, Community Catalyst—to study policy opportunities to address the affordability of long-term services and supports. The project, the largest single… Continue Reading →

Community Catalyst, LTSS Center awarded four-year grant to support family caregivers

The federal Administration for Community Living (ACL) has awarded Community Catalyst a four-year grant to develop, test, and disseminate new approaches for increasing awareness of family caregivers and building support for their unique concerns. As part of that grant, the… Continue Reading →

Meet a researcher: Marc Cohen

Marc Cohen, PhD, worked for decades in private industry before joining UMass Boston in 2016. His transition to an academic setting was nearly seamless, he says, because for all those years, “I was a misplaced academic in the corporate world.”… Continue Reading →

An Insider’s Look at Battle Over Future of Affordable Care Act, Medicaid

The future of federal policy toward health care, potentially affecting many millions of Americans, became the hottest of all front-burner issues immediately following Election Day last year. The next president had made repeal of the Affordable Care Act a leading… Continue Reading →

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