Candidates Views on Direct Care

In November 2007, the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) contacted the campaigns of all the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, asking the candidates to respond to a set of questions on critical aging issues facing the nation. Responses have been received from Democratic candidates John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, as of December 31, 2007. Their answers can be viewed here. Click on a name to read the candidates views on aging issues.

Of particular interest to us are the questions about long-term care, including:

How would you improve the quality of life and quality of care for people in nursing homes and what would you do to ensure that a sufficient number of direct care workers are recruited and retained across the long-term care continuum?

United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, the Lehigh Valley Alliance on Aging, the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the PA Direct Care Workers Association, and LCAO make no endorsement of any candidate, and provides these responses as a way of enabling American voters to gain a perspective on the candidates.