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AARP Well-Being Champions Keep Fostering a Culture of Health March 19, 2019
Every community has different challenges when it comes to health and well-being, and those who live and work locally often generate creative solutions. That understanding was the driving force behind our selection of the AARP Well-Being Champions. First announced in late 2017, these 10 community leaders – all of whom are age 50 plus — […]
Susan Reinhard and Jennifer Peed
AARP Wins Sharecare Award for Video Celebrating Men as Family Caregivers March 19, 2019
AARP recently won a prominent “Sharecare Award” for its video spotlighting men as family caregivers, raising attention to an often hidden but vitally important group of people. Co-produced with AARP Studios, the 3-minute video offers an inside look at a gathering of African-American men from Philadelphia who support one another and openly share their unique challenges. […]
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Tragic Subway Death Highlights Need for Accessible Public Transportation March 19, 2019
While navigating a Manhattan subway station with her 1-year-old daughter recently, 22 year-old Malaysia Goodson fell down a flight of stairs. Tragically, the fall was no everyday spill; she ended up dying. Goodson’s death has been met with public outrage over the circumstances that led to this tragedy. Why did this happen, and how might we prevent it in the future? Though Ms. Goodson’s cause of death […]
Rodney Harrell and Molly Evans
Need to Extend Medicaid Spousal Impoverishment Protection for Home- and Community-Based Services March 18, 2019
No husbands or wives should have to completely bankrupt themselves when their spouses need Medicaid to fund home- and community-based services (HCBS) such as help with daily activities like eating, bathing, and dressing. Yet unless Congress acts, bankruptcy or nursing home admission are exactly what could happen in many such cases in the near future […]
Wendy Fox-Grage
Money Follows the Person Program: A Win-Win Solution, but Will it Stay Around? March 18, 2019
As AARP’s recent report highlights, the majority of Americans prefer to remain in their homes as long as possible. Helping to enable that are home- and community-based services (HCBS)—the kind of long-term supports provided to older adults and individuals with disabilities residing in communities as they age. Thus, HCBS is already the preferred option over […]
Jean Accius and Molly Evans
Family Caregiver Supports in Medicare Advantage Plans: New Opportunities for Person- and Family-Centered Care March 13, 2019
Medicare Advantage—the private plans that cover one-third of Medicare beneficiaries—has new flexibility to offer more supplemental benefits. Importantly, among those benefits are services and supports for family caregivers. That’s good news and, in fact, some plans are adopting such benefits. A recent AARP Public Policy Institute analysis of the 2019 Medicare Advantage Landscape Source Files […]
Wendy Fox-Grage, Lynn Friss Feinberg, and Susan Reinhard
Stranded: Bridging the Transportation Gap for Rural Communities March 11, 2019
While innovations in transportation tend to be viewed as a trend unique to urban communities and settings, new technologies are now enabling service providers to capitalize on a previously untapped market: rural communities. With a unique set of challenges and opportunities—and enabled by today’s technology—these rural markets allow transportation service providers to rethink the kinds […]
Valerie Lefler, Feonix - Mobility Rising
Strengthening the National Family Caregiver Support Program: The Time has Come March 11, 2019
The creation of the National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP) nearly two decades ago marked the first federal recognition of the central role families play in the provision of long-term services and supports (LTSS). In the field of aging and caregiving, the NFCSP, created in 2000 under the Older Americans Act (originally enacted in 1965), […]
Lynn Friss Feinberg
Fewer jobs added in February, but unemployment rate declines March 8, 2019
Employment Overview Overall, the economy added only 20,000 jobs in February, a sharp decrease from the 311,000 jobs added in January (revised up from +304,000) according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly Employment Situation data. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate decreased to 3.8 percent overall and to 2.7 percent for those ages 55 […]
Jennifer Schramm
It’s Not Just a Meal: The Importance of the Older Americans Act Nutrition Program March 4, 2019
Imagine living alone, being frail or living with a disability, and unable to leave your house without help. Now imagine feeling a hunger pang, opening up your fridge to find it empty, or wondering how you are going to get your next meal. For some food-insecure older Americans, that’s their daily reality. Fortunately, some are […]
Olivia Dean

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