Following is an excerpt from a Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial yesterday on long-term care financing …While poor children, their parents or pregnant women make up the majority of Medicaid enrollees, two-thirds of the Medicaid budget is spent on the elderly and disabled. One-third of the program’s total spending goes toward long-term care, which is why reform here could yield…

Ecumen’s CEO Kathryn Roberts and Jan Malcolm, CEO of

There are a lot of people busy within Ecumen in shaping new senior housing options and services. We want to share with you some new development and service news from around Ecumen:

Thank you to Ecumen colleague Anna Cole-Kost at Ecumen’s Parmly LifePointes community who contributed this reflection on the gift of growing old. It was sent to her from a friend who has discovered new things in old age:Old Age, I decided, is a gift.I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometimes despair over my body, the…