PPI Reports on Health Costs
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Providing More Long-term Support and Services at Home: Why It’s Critical for Health Reform
Expansion of home and community-based long term care services can significantly help address the health care needs of many older adults, as explained in this AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet. (3 pages)
June 1, 2009
By: AARP Public Policy Institute
Creating a Medicare Transitional Care Benefit: How it Can Save Billions and Improve Care
This AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet explains how a Medicare transitional care benefit can save billions of dollars in hospital readmissions and improve health outcomes and satisfaction for millions of beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions. (1 page)
May 13, 2009
By: AARP Public Policy Institute
Reduce Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Health Care
This AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet by Keith D. Lind describes the problems of waste, fraud, and abuse in the health care system, and highlights some solutions to these problems.
September 2, 2009
By: Keith D. Lind, JD. MS, AARP Public Policy Institute | Source: AARP.org
How Consumer Choice Affects Health Coverage Plan Design
The challenges of designing a sustainable health coverage program to serve people with differing health needs are outlined in this AARP Public Policy Institute Insight on the Issues, written by Mercer’s George Wagoner. Choices can attract broad enrollment but can produce unanticipated costs for individuals and program sponsors. (10 pages)
March 9, 2009
By: George Wagoner, Mercer | Source: AARP Public Policy Institute; Mercer
The Medicare Beneficiary Population
This AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet by Ben Umans and Lynn Nonnemaker describes the demographic characteristics of the Medicare beneficiary population. It examines age, gender, and socioeconomic status, as well as health status and service utilization for the beneficiary population. (4 pages)
January 31, 2009
By: Ben Umans, AARP Public Policy Institute; K. Lynn Nonnemaker, AARP Public Policy Institute | Source: AARP Public Policy Institute
In Brief: Planning for Retirement? Web Calculators Weak on Health Costs
Consumers face the challenge of estimating retirement savings needs. This In Brief abstracts research, by Bryan Dowd, Adam Atherly, and Robert Town from the University of Minnesota and Emory University, that explores how some web calculators handle health costs in planning retirement income. (2 pages)
December 31, 2008
By: Bryan E. Dowd, Ph.D, University of Minnesota; Adam Atherly, Ph.D., School of Public Health, Emory University; Robert Town, Ph.D., School of Public Health, University of Minnesota | Source: AARP Public Policy Institute; University of Minnesota; School of Public Health, Emory University; School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Planning for Retirement? Web Calculators Weak on Health Costs
Consumers face the challenge of estimating retirement savings needs. This issue paper, by Bryan Dowd, Adam Atherly, and Robert Town from the University of Minnesota and Emory University, explores how 12 web calculators handle health costs in planning retirement income. (18 pages)
December 31, 2008
By: Bryan E. Dowd, Ph.D, University of Minnesota; Adam Atherly, Ph.D., School of Public Health, Emory University; Robert Town, Ph.D., School of Public Health, University of Minnesota | Source: AARP Public Policy Institute; University of Minnesota; School of Public Health, Emory University; School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
The Role of the Older Americans Act in Providing Long-Term Care
This AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet by Jean Accius explains the important role that the Older Americans Act (OAA) plays in the delivery of long-term services and supports to older adults, including the funding of nutrition services, family caregiver support, disease prevention, health promotion, and other supportive services. (3 pages)
October 20, 2008
By: Jean C. Accius, AARP Public Policy Institute | Source: AARP Public Policy Institute
Facts on Health Care Spending and Costs
This AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet, written by Shelly-Ann Sinclair, reviews trends in national health spending, examines how the rapid growth in health care costs is reflected at the consumer level, explores factors driving health care costs, and discusses opportunities to control cost growth. (4 pages)
October 19, 2008
By: Shelly-Ann Sinclair, AARP Public Policy Institute | Source: AARP Public Policy Institute
Long-Term Care
Long-term care is an array of long-term services and supports used by people who need assistance to function in their daily lives. This AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet by Ari Houser describes the population needing long-term care, the types of services, their costs, and how they are paid for. (2 pages)
October 22, 2007
By: Ari N. Houser, AARP Public Policy Institute | Source: AARP Public Policy Institute
Solutions Forums
Saving Jobs in A Recession: How Work Sharing Can Help
Seventeen states have programs that use unemployment funds to keep workers on the job with reduced hours. Learn how federal and state policy can better promote these work-sharing programs--and how several European nations have implemented work-sharing.
The Auto IRA: Strategies for Successful Implementation
Experts from the US and abroad discussed how an Auto-IRA can improve retirement security; lessons from similar programs in New Zealand and the UK; and how the Auto-IRA can work well for workers, small business and the financial industry.
Protecting Your Home, Car and Investment Savings: How to Stop Financial Fraud
How fraud impacts financial security, especially for older Americans—and discussion of policy options for combating mortgage, auto sales and investment scams. Luncheon speaker SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro discussed the Commission’s priorities on financial fraud.
Getting it Right: Smart Housing and Transportation Planning for Livable Communities
This forum featured release of new research on preserving subsidized housing near transit and discussion of how to coordinate housing, transportation and land use policy to develop livable communities.
What Happened to My Social Security COLA?
Why no COLA is expected for 2010 and how this affects individuals and the states. Panelists include experts from the Social Security Administration, AARP, the National Governors Association and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A New Look at Making Financial Decisions for Retirement
PPI released a series of new reports offering a fresh look at financial decisions related to retirement. Experts examined why many people make poor choices and explore how to improve the options available to retirees.
Fixing Chronic Care in America
National experts discussed problems facing millions of Americans with multiple chronic conditions, and explored potential solutions highlighted in a new PPI publication, Chronic Care: a Call to Action for Health Reform and in a new video Faces of Chronic Care.
AARP Public Policies
Learn about the policy development process at AARP. For a complete guide to AARP's positions on public issues, see The Policy Book, AARP Public Policies 2009-2010.
Center to Champion Nursing in America
The Center to Champion Nursing in America seeks to ensure Americans have the highly skilled nurses we need to provide affordable, quality health care. The Center serves as a consumer-driven, national force to increase the nation’s capacity to educate and retain nurses.
