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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Assistive technologies, 14, 115, 164, 244–246 Association of American Medical Colleges, 129 Atlantic Philanthropies, 141–142, 150, 154 B Balanced Budget Amendment, 137 Beacon Hill Village, 229 Better Jobs Better Care, 230 Boston University Medical Center, 155 Bureau of Health Professions, 6, 30 C California Endowment, 163 California HealthCare Foundation, 163 Care coordinator. See Geriatric care managers Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, 258 Cash and counseling program, 92–93 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Programs, 231–232 Centers of excellence in geriatric medicine, 29, 141, 154 Cerebrovascular disease, 44 Certified nursing assistants. See Nurse aides Chiropractic services, 49 Cholesterol control drugs, 49 Chronic conditions definition of long-term care, 27 fee-for-service payment system, 96 future challenges for health care system, 16 health care utilization for, 42–43, 45–46 Medicare spending, 3, 16, 42–43 mortality, 16 City College of San Francisco, 163 Collaborative for Ethnogeriatric Education, 155–156 Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans, 25–28 Community-Based Jobs Training Grants, 164, 230 Community-based services demand for direct-care workers and, 200 long-term care provision, 48 shortcomings of Medicaid policies, 23 volunteer workers for, 229 Compensation for health care workers direct-care workers, 11, 209, 210–211, 220–222 financial incentives for geriatric training, 10, 171 geriatric medicine professionals, 171 supply and demand estimates and, 28 wage pass-throughs, 11, 221, 222 Complementary and alternative medicine, 49 Comprehensive Geriatric Education Program, 142 Congress, recommendations for, 6, 11, 13, 30, 108, 175 informal caregivers in, 242 Cooperative Home Care Association, 222 Coordination of care current shortcomings, 114 goals of health system reform, 77 in Medicare Advantage, 97 in MedPAC, 99 model of end-of-life care, 83–84 in new models of care, 114 significance of, in health care outcomes, 47–48, 113–114 Cost of care assistive technologies, 246
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