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.

Rx Watchdog Report: Trends in Prices of Prescription Drugs Used by Medicare Beneficiaries

This report--which shows prescription drug prices significantly outpacing inflation--has prompted a Congressional investigation into drug industry pricing.

Beyond Age Rating: Spreading Risk in Health Insurance Markets

How health insurance companies can profitably insure older adults without setting premiums based on age.

Making Your Nest Egg Last a Lifetime

Key financial decisions for lifetime security: what most households actually do and what economic analysis suggests they should do.

Health Reform: Cost of Doing Nothing

Highlights the costs of inaction on health care reform from the perspective of consumers, businesses, society, and the nation.

Complete Streets for an Aging America

A model for planning and designing our streets and roads to increase safety and travel options for older adults.

Physician Payment: Opportunities for Reform

Ways to improve the current physician payment system, with a focus on Medicare, and ideas for reform, including international models of payment.

Preserving Livable Communities: Subsidized Housing Near Transit

How older adults benefit from federally subsidized housing near transit, and policies to head off threats to preserving that housing.

Safe at Home? Developing Effective Criminal Screening Policies for Home Care Workers

An assessment of current state laws and methods for conducting criminal background checks of home care workers, a look at key policy considerations and guidance on approaches that show promise.

Building Adult Foster Care: What States Can Do

The role of adult foster care (AFC) in long-term care and guidance for policy-makers interested in developing or expanding AFC.

Impact of the Financial Crisis on Older Americans

Shows how older Americans have been hit by the downturn and finds that the federal government should concentrate on reviving the economy and the flow of credit.

Chronic Care: A Call to Action

A fresh look at problems faced by millions of older Americans with multiple chronic conditions, care models that work and recommendations for improving chronic care in the context of health reform.

Providing More Long-Term Care at Home: Critical for Health Reform

Explains how expansion of home and community-based long-term care services can help address the health care needs of many older adults.

Older Workers on the Move: Recareering in Later Life

This report examines the characteristics of workers who change careers later in life, which is becoming more common as older adults delay retirement.

Power of Attorney Abuse: What States Can Do About It

Explains how the Uniform Power of Attorney Act helps prevent, detect, and redress power of attorney abuse and provides resources to promote enactment of this model law.

• Social Security Financing: Automatic Adjustments to Restore Solvency
• A Medicare Buy-in? Pros and Cons
• Taking the Long View: Investing in Medicaid HCBS
• The GINA Law: Consumer Protection in a New Era
• Cost Containment in Medicare: What Works?
• Across the States: Profiles of Long-Term Care
• The Earned Income Tax Credit and Older Workers