Aging Policy and Politics in the Trump Era

Edward Alan Miller is Professor in the Department of Gerontology, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, School of Public Health at Brown University, Providence, USA. His research focuses on understanding the determinants and effects of federal and state policies affecting frail and disabled elders. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy and is a Fellow of The Gerontological Society of America, Washington, D.C., USA.Pamela Nadash is Associate Professor in the Department of Gerontology, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Her work centers on policies that enable people with long-term care needs to access required supportive services with a special interest in policies that support informed choice. She is Book Review Editor for the Journal of Aging & Social Policy and is a Fellow of The Gerontological Society of America, Washington, D.C., USA.Michael K. Gusmano is Associate Professor of Health Systems and Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA; a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, Garrison, USA; and a Visiting Fellow in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University at Albany – State University of New York, USA. His research examines the politics of health reform, technology assessment, social and long-term care, and local adaptation to population aging.

• 1. Introduction: The state of aging policy and politics in the Trump era 2. Financing long-term services and supports: challenges, goals, and needed reforms 3. The housing challenges of low-income older adults and the role of federal policy 4. Collision course? Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and the fate of Medicare 5. A series of unfortunate events: implications of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act for older adults 6. Undermining the ACA through the executive branch and federalism: what the Trump administration’s approach to health reform means for older Americans 7. The Trump Administration’s assault on health and social programs: potential consequences for older Hispanics 8. Trump and the GOP agenda: implications for retirement policy 9. Policy responses during the Trump administration to older people’s growing economic risk exposure 10. Draining the swamp while making America great again: senior dissonance in the age of Trump 11. Medicaid retrenchment politics: fragmented or unified? 12. Organizing seniors to protect the health safety net: the way forward