Long-Term Care: Projected Needs of the Aging Baby Boom Generation

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined how the changing composition of the U.S. population in the twenty-first century will affect nursing home and home care services as well as the population available to pay for such services, focusing on projections of the: (1) disabled elderly population and its use of long-term care services; (2) number of home health aides required; (3) costs of future long-term care services; and (4) base of taxpayer or employed work force available to pay for such care.