Description: In this introductory session, we set the stage for the Symposium’s entire ElderTech track. We’ve seen increasing technology adaptation by the elderly in many areas of their lives, including socializing, health care, mobility, home monitoring, insurance, investing and financial planning. Panelists will provide an overview of the current state of ElderTech and how they believe it will evolve in the short and long term. Panelists will also discuss the problems ElderTech is trying to solve, consumer pain points and why ElderTech has become so important recently.

Description: Panelists from the home-based care industry will discuss the latest technology and services that enable and prolong the receipt of formal and informal care at home for the elderly and delay transitions to care facilities.

Description: General Session VI

Description: The Child Tax Credit and Social Security have demonstrated how simple rules based cash transfer programs can significantly lower poverty. Discover information from a paper that describes how the expansion of Social Security can more effectively and efficiently reduce poverty than the current alphabet of anti-poverty programs.

Description: Discover an introduction to decomposing differences in life expectancy by age and cause of death. Take a look into demographic techniques that decompose life expectancies at birth and older ages into the portions contributed by later age groups and causes of death-. These have been in existence for some time and provide a convenient device for analyzing mortality change over time as well as differences between sexes, countries, and ethnic groups. The methods will be described and illustrated by spreadsheet examples.

Description: "Population Aging, Global Climate Change and Social Security – Sally Shen, Research Associate, Global Risk Institute, John A. Turner, Ph.D., Director, Pension PolicyClimate Change and Mortality Time for Actuaries to Pay Attention – Sam Gutterman. FSA, CERA, FCAS, FCA, HONFIA, MAAA"

Description: The regulatory and market dynamics of the ACA's second decade are more predicable than the first. Come hear the latest information from industry experts on the emerging trends in ACA marketplaces. You'll also discover an understanding about emerging federal and state policy that will have pricing and financial implications. Finally, you'll get to learn what actuaries need to know to be well prepared for actuarial practice in the ACA's second decade. Key learning objectives include: - Comprehending the historical dynamics in the ACA's first decade which will shape the future - Understanding the changing national premium landscape for 2024, the 11th year of ACA marketplaces - Having a strong grasp on how the ACA's second decade will differ from the first from an actuarial perspective

Description: Listen to pre-eminent healthcare actuaries present their pitch for how they'd fix US healthcare (whatever the pitch thinks 'fix' means) if they were supreme policy maker for a day. No idea is too big, and no healthcare actuary's dream is too small.

Description: Join this presentation covering the key provisions of the IRA which govern the selection of drugs for negotiation. We will also discuss what these changes mean for all Medicare Part D stakeholders, including: Government Beneficiary Part D Plans Drug Manufacturers Original Content:

Description: Following her first 100 days as the CMS Administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure released her six strategic pillars for the agency. The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) followed these pillars and laid out their priorities for states under the Biden-Harris administration. With these priorities established, recent 1115 submissions from several large states, including California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, may give insight to how CMS will operationalize their vision under this program authority. This session will include presentation from state policy staff who have led recent 1115 waiver proposals. By attending the session, you will be able to: • Demonstrate understanding of the current administration’s strategic priorities for State Medicaid & CHIP programs. • Identify trends in recent 1115 waiver submissions.