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AARP fought for public reporting of nursing home COVID-19 cases and deaths. Using this data, the AARP Public Policy Institute, in collaboration with the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University in Ohio, created the AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard to provide four-week snapshots of the infiltration of the virus into nursing homes and its impact on residents and staff, with the goal of identifying specific areas of concern at the national and state levels in a timely manner.

The September 24, 2020 webcast release contextualized the LTSS Scorecard in the current policy environment, highlighted high-level findings, and showcased successful state strategies.

The rise of Uber and Lyft has exacerbated insurance challenges for volunteer drivers. Insurance agents often have difficulty distinguishing between people using their personal vehicles to make money and those using them to provide transportation as volunteers. This confusion comes just as the demand for volunteer-provided transportation is rapidly increasing. State legislators and the insurance industry need to get involved to remove barriers to this invaluable form of volunteerism. This paper explores these challenges volunteer drivers face in the age of ridesharing. 

The Commonwealth Fund's 2020 Scorecard on State Health System Performance assesses all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 49 measures of access to health care, quality of care, service use and costs of care, health outcomes, and income-based health care disparities.

Building a Master Plan for Aging: Key Elements from States Planning for an Aging Population

This Insight on the Issues discusses the availability of assisted living and residential care, which represent a critical component of the long-term services and supports (LTSS) system for older adults who cannot live alone, but do not require the skilled care provided by nursing homes. In 2010, states reported a total of 51,367 licensed residential care settings with a total capacity of 1,233,690 beds—a dramatic increase from an estimated 1,046,631 beds in 2007. (July 2012)

This Insight on the Issues examines respite care, or temporary relief for caregivers from caregiving tasks. It is the service strategy most commonly offered to support family caregivers and is available in all 50 states. However, definitions of respite vary among programs and states, and quality and completeness of reported data are often lacking, making rigorous comparison among states impossible. This report describes the main sources of publicly funded respite care and presents data for the year 2007. (July 2012)