This qualitative report summarizes the issues Illinois caregivers and older adults faced finding local LTSS resources and their assessments of the quality of care accessed, supplemented by the first-person comments and observations of the interviewees.
This Spotlight examines nursing home worker issues, including low wages and benefits and lack of career advancement opportunities.
This Spotlight explores the history of racial and ethnic inequities in nursing homes, discusses trends in nursing home admissions by race and ethnicity, and proposes recommendations for change.
The National Inventory of Self‑Directed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs builds upon the 2023 LTSS State Scorecard and previous inventories and provides an overview of all publicly funded self-directed LTSS nationwide.
This paper explores respite, are provided to an older adult or person with disabilities so that their family caregiver can get a short break from their care responsibilities, its impact on family caregivers, and barriers to its use.
The 2023 LTSS State Scorecard (the Scorecard) is a compilation of state data and analysis based on a new vision of a high-performing state long-term services and supports (LTSS) system. Released every three years, the Scorecard uses data from a wide range of sources to describe how state LTSS systems are performing.
This issue brief highlights research on inequities in LTSS related to the Scorecard’s five domains. This paper further outlines potential data sources to assess these inequities and discusses implications for how AARP plans to address these inequities through the Scorecard.
This guide is intended to help community leaders, planners, and housing practitioners and advocates identify and overcome specific challenges that limit the local supply and legal occupancy of ADUs.
This report pulls from multiple sources to profile who family caregivers are and the challenges they face and includes several first-person accounts of the experience.
This paper highlights the Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) model, designed to keep older adults in the community and to improve their ability to remain independent.
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