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This is a pivotal time. Converging sociodemographic trends and more complex care needs are contributing to historically unprecedented challenges in family care of older people in the U.S.

The federal Commission on Long-Term Care voted Sept. 12 on its final recommendations, which will be included in the commission's final report later this month.

Do the rich benefit from the welfare-based Medicaid program? Not according to much of the testimony presented at a recent hearing of the federal Commission on Long-Term Care. Here are key questions the hearing addressed: