Every decade, the White House hosts a Conference on Aging in order to advance the quality of life in older Americans. The conference was held in 2015 which is also the year celebrating the 50th anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare. The conference collects information from different states and cities in order to find out what topics need to be covered in upcoming events.
This year, the main issues that were discussed were retirement security, healthy aging, long-term services and support and elder justice. In the 2015 budget, there was a proposed $3 million that is being used to support aging as well as new technology that will be utilized.
A major project that was implemented was a new one-stop shop for all aging resources. The website for the new services is www.aging.gov, and the home page contains information on social security, Medicaid and more. The site is easy to navigate according to state and local information.