{"id":22358,"date":"2026-05-07T00:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/americans-want-to-age-at-home-congress-must-help-make-it-possible\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:22:26","slug":"americans-want-to-age-at-home-congress-must-help-make-it-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/americans-want-to-age-at-home-congress-must-help-make-it-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans want to age at home \u2014 Congress must help make it possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Home and Community-Based Services Access Act and the Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act have been introduced to provide much-needed support for caregivers and direct care workers, and to ensure that home and community-based services are a guaranteed Medicaid benefit&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/healthcare\/5865339-workforce-crisis-caregivers\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home and Community-Based Services Access Act and the Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act have been introduced to provide much-needed support for caregivers and direct care workers, and to ensure that home and community-based services are a guaranteed Medicaid benefit&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}