Long Term Care not a priority among candidates

According to a recent article published by Forbes contributing author, Howard Gleckman, long tem care issues are not high priority items for discussion. This despite the fact that the fastest growing segment of our population are the octogenarians, those 80 and over, who are likely to place a heavy demand on long term care services.

Most presidential candidates don’t care enough about long-term care services to bother to describe their views on issue. Of the five candidates surveyed by 15 national advocacy groups only two–President Obama and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich–responded to five questions on long-term care. Neither of the two GOP frontrunners, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, answered the survey. Nor has Ron Paul.

See Long-Term Care Services: Forgotten By Most Presidential Candidates. Forbes 2/22/2012