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As the U.S. population ages, workplaces will include more employees who have caregiving responsibilities. This report, "Protecting Family Caregivers from Employment Discrimination," prepared by the AARP Public Policy Institute, identifies discrimination in the workplace encountered by workers with caregiving responsibilities as an emerging trend.

The National Association of Medicaid Directors is a bipartisan professional nonprofit organization of state Medicaid agencies. These documents, the National Association of Medicaid Directors Fall 2012 Conference Meeting Materials include conference recordings and hand-out materials on a variety of Medicaid topics, including views from the front line, impacts of the volatile economy, and integrating behavioral and physical health care.

As America’s population ages, experts believe that the most successful and vibrant communities of the 21^st Century will be those that are age-friendly – ones that allow for greater mobility, productivity, and optimal health and well-being for people of all ages.  Grantmakers In Aging, in partnership with the Pfizer Foundation, is pleased to announce three new resources from its Community AGEnda project, which is helping communities across the country become better places to grow up and grow older.  These include an introductory report titled,

California currently spends more than $850 million per day on health care, and that number is expected to rise to 17.1 percent of the state’s economy by 2022. In a year-long collaborative effort, policy experts from the University of California, Berkeley, CEOs of major health insurers and health care delivery systems, and leaders of California’s public sector have produced a detailed roadmap for improving California’s health care system.