Project 2020

Founded in 1964, the National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA) is a non-profit association representing the nation's 56 officially designated state and territorial agencies on aging. The mission of the Association is to advance social, health, and economic policies responsive to the needs of a diverse aging population and to enhance the capacity of its membership to promote the rights, dignity and independence of, and expand opportunities and resources for, current and future generations of older persons, adults with disabilities and their families.

NASUA is the articulating force at the national level through which the state agencies on aging join together to promote social policy in the public and private sectors responsive to the challenges and opportunities of an aging America.

The National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA) and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, conscious of the financial pressures facing states and the federal government, have developed a coordinated national long-term care strategy (Project 2020) that will generate
savings in Medicaid and Medicare at the federal and state levels while enabling older adults and individuals with disabilities to get the support they need to successfully age where they want to — in their own home and community.

The goal of 2020 is to provide the resources to implement consumer-centered and cost-effective long-termcare strategies authorized in the 2006 reauthorization of the Older Americans Act and to empower the Aging Services Network to implement these strategies through a three-pronged program encompassing person-centered access to information, evidence-based disease prevention and health promotion activities, and enhanced nursing home
diversion services.

http://www.nasua.org/issues/federal_policy/project_2020.html