Initiatives

Our Initiatives

AARP supports a number of important initiatives to collect and analyze research, encourage policy development and propose innovative solutions for U.S. and global change makers and thought leaders.

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Health & Health Care

AARP Center for Health Equity Through Nursing

The AARP Center for Health Equity Through NursingSM (the Center) was founded to align nurse leadership and consumer voices to end structural barriers to health and well-being.

Global Council on Brain Health

The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) is an independent collaborative, created to provide trusted information on how you can maintain and improve your brain health.

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Mirror, Mirror

Discrimination is a real and common occurrence for most American women. A new survey by AARP finds many feel they are treated differently because of their gender or age, and others have experienced discrimination based on their looks, weight, social class, or race.

Gratitude for Nurses

A collaboration between AARP and DAISY Foundation to show gratitude to nurses working in all settings.

Learn How to Prevent Diabetes

Learn about prediabetes, how to know if you have it, and programs that could help.

Work, Finances & Retirement

Aging Readiness & Competitiveness (ARC)

The ARC initiative spotlights global, multisectoral leading practices to help society embrace an aging world.

AARP BankSafe

The BankSafe initiative helps the financial industry better meet consumers’ financial needs and safeguard their assets.

Emergency Savings

Too many households do not have enough savings to cope with a typical unexpected expense, from a broken water heater to a broken arm. Even a small savings cushion could prevent families from being trapped in a harmful cycle of debt or from depleting their retirement savings to pay for common emergencies.

Future of Work at 50+

The world of work is changing. How can workers adapt to the challenges of today and be prepared for the workplace of tomorrow? We are facing a new work reality. What trends define that reality? How can those who have lost their jobs find high-quality new jobs? What can we do about the persistent long-term unemployment that continues to affect older people?

Future of Work@50+ is a multiyear initiative that will discuss the problem areas, highlight what we have learned and, most important, suggest policy solutions to ensure that older Americans have access to good-quality jobs and develop the skills they need to retain or obtain them.

Global Employer Survey

We surveyed employers in 36 OECD countries, discovering how they can drive towards inclusive workforce ecosystems.

Learning and Education at 50+

Older learners are education leaders in their families and communities and play a role in improving college attainment rates and reducing educational disparities. When an older adult attains their degree, it raises the likelihood that younger family members will, too.

Living, Learning and Earning Longer

Our 100+ global employer learning collaborative sharing multigenerational, inclusive workforce practices.

State Retirement Resource Center

Welcome to the AARP State Retirement Resource Center, your go-to resource for data, information, and public opinion research related to state legislation, program design, specific focus areas, and implementation of retirement savings.

Long Term Services & Supports and Caregiving

AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard

Snapshots of COVID-19's infiltration into nursing homes and its impact on long-term care residents and staff.

Home Alone Alliance

What happens when family caregivers are part of the care team, when they are instructed on how to do complex care at home and when they are seen as #morethanavisitor.

LTSS Choices

This series of reports, blogs, videos, podcasts, and virtual convenings seeks to spark ideas for immediate, intermediate, and long-term options for reforming LTSS.

LTSS Scorecard

Drill into the new 2023 Scorecard Report data for a single state or compare performance and rankings on measures of long-term services and supports across states.

Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care

Discover how hospitals are improving patient and family engagement.

Learning Resources for Family Caregivers

Hospital leaders share how they use learning resources to prepare family caregivers to perform complex care.

Livable Communities

Age Friendly Communities

The work that happens within the network — which is a program within the larger AARP Livable Communities initiative — is hands-on and locally determined and directed.

Equity by Design

Explore how policy, planning, design, and development has the power to make healthier communities for all.

AARP Livability Index ™ platform

How livable is your community?

Women Ride Bicycles, City Environment, Sunny Outdoors, AARP Livable Communities Tool Kits Resources

Livable Communities Policy

Livable communities policies address issues including housing and transportation – all of which can facilitate aging in place.

Other Initiatives

AARP at the United Nations

Learn more about our annual event at the United Nations where we discuss issues of aging with global civil society.

AARP The Journal

Our annual publication that addresses the health and financial security issues facing a global aging population.

Building Equity

This webinar series and report highlights solutions to inequities exposed by the pandemic and life expectancy disparities.

Innovations in Healthy Aging

Explore promising practices and innovations that are supporting healthy aging around the world.

Living 100

With the growing trend of increased longevity, learn more about how to make the most of a longer life.

Member Opinion Survey

The AARP Member Opinion Survey (MOS) is the largest single survey of AARP Members. It is conducted by AARP Research every few years and informs AARP about opinions, perceptions, and experiences of its members. Beginning back in 1994, the MOS collects data from thousands of AARP Members in order to gain better insight into what members care about most — their top concerns, life experiences, demographic characteristics, and much more.

Vital Voices Research

AARP Vital Voices Research enables AARP state offices to gauge local opinions on a range of topics through regular surveys. Offered every three years, the surveys are a collaborative effort between AARP researchers and state office staff. The timing of the online phone surveys, along with the content, is customized to reflect the needs of each state.

Technology Trends Research

If a pandemic-driven acceleration of technology adoption among older adults characterized 2020, then 2021 in some sense can be seen as a year when tech introduction became tech habit.

Travel Trends Research

After curtailing vacations during the pandemic, a new AARP survey finds Americans are beginning to feel more comfortable about traveling. The hopeful return to the road this year is fueled, in part, by the strong buying power and pent-up demand of travelers 50-plus.