About Knowledge Management at AARP
At AARP, knowledge about issues important to midlife and older Americans is essential for advocating on their behalf, providing information that can help people lead better lives, creating needed market products and services, and developing public service programs that benefit all Americans.
Knowledge Management’s mission is to ensure that the right information gets to the right people at the right time. It creates and disseminates knowledge to those who need it—AARP members and staff, opinion leaders, policy makers, and the general public—via AARP.org and AARP’s printed publications as well as through research reports and articles, presentations at conferences and seminars, and the news media.
AARP’s research activities strive to answer the hard questions about the growing age 50+ population and the world at large by…
- Identifying the needs, interests, and concerns of midlife and older adults—both AARP members and non-members—at the state, national and international levels
- Understanding how AARP members and other adults of all ages, at both state and national levels, think about Social Security, Medicare, prescription drugs, and other issues of strategic significance to midlife and older Americans
- Anticipating and tracking emerging social trends (such as changing midlife divorce rates, evolving racial attitudes, boomers’ civic involvement), and analyzing alternative approaches for dealing with their potential impact upon the age 50+ population
- Developing and providing access to online databases of current aging-related research and policy literature (AgeLine), information resources around the world (AgeSource Worldwide), and Web sites of interest to older adults and professionals in the field of aging (Internet Resources on Aging)