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Data by state on Americans 50-plus: health, financial security, housing, caregiving and more. Read
Solutions Forum: Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports
How Can States Do Better?
Solutions Forum:
Advancing Rural Health
Maximizing Nurses Impact
Solutions Forum: Launching Health Insurance Exchanges
What are states doing to create exchanges?
Solutions Forum: Improving Health Coverage for Americans 50-64
The impact of health reform—now and in the future.
Solutions Forum: Social Security and the Future of Retirement
What changes can ensure Social Security continues to play a major role in retirement security?
Learn about the policy development process at AARP, and read about AARP's positions on public issues in The Policy Book, AARP Public Policies
2011-2012. More
Faces of Chronic Care, a video produced by AARP’s Public Policy Institute, explores the difficulties faced by many older Americans with chronic health conditions as they (and their caregivers) navigate the health delivery system. Watch
PPI is home to the Center to Champion Nursing in America — a joint initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — committed to addressing the growing nursing shortage that threatens access to health care and quality of care across the nation. More
The Public Policy Institute informs and stimulates public debate on the issues we face as we age. The Institute promotes development of sound, creative policies to address our common need for economic security, health care, and quality of life.
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Discussion of assisted living and residential care and new data on state capacity. read
Soaring temperatures raise cooling bills for many older consumers. read
The latest available data on the main sources of publicly funded respite care. read
A report on focus groups held with older Americans who receive Medicare and Medicaid. read
Consumers benefit when advanced practice registered nurses have hospital privileges read
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