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Looking for new and notable information to help you dig deeper into an issue? Start with these featured reports and web sites, and then browse through our full selection by topic.

Reports: Featured

2023 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures
Alzheimer's Association, February 2023, 132 pp.
An annual report on U.S. data related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This report includes a summary of current knowledge about Alzheimer's disease, information on prevalence, mortality and lifetime risk of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and the experiences of primary care physicians related to Alzheimer's and dementia. more info >

2021 Home and Community Preferences Survey: A National Survey of Adults Age 18-Plus
AARP, November 2022
This survey focuses on the needs and wants of older adults with regard to housing, transportation, outdoor spaces, and social engagement and isolation. more info >

Family Caregiver Considerations for the Future of Hospital at Home Programs
AARP Public Policy Institute, August 2022, 13 pp.
The Hospital at Home (HaH) model shifts care into the home setting and delivers acute hospital-level care to eligible patients where they live instead of in a hospital. This brief presents four detailed Family Caregiver Considerations that HaH models can incorporate into policy and program design to best support patients and family caregivers. more info >

Social Security Quick Fact Sheets
AARP, June 2022, 2 pp.
National and individual state data on the number of residents receiving Social Security and its impacts on individuals and the economy. more info >

America's Health Rankings: Senior Report 2022
United Health Foundation, May 2022, 52 pp.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of senior population health on a national and state-by-state basis across 62 measures of senior health. This year's report includes, among other things, information on disparities in health among older Americans by geography, education level, income level, gender, age, race, and ethnicity. more info >

Caregiving in a Diverse America: Beginning to Understand the Systemic Challenges Facing Family Caregivers
National Alliance for Caregiving, October 2021, 44 pp.
Based on data from the report "Caregiving in the U.S. 2020," this report expands upon the diverse experiences of family caregivers and provides important policy recommendations to help aid family caregivers in their important tasks. more info >

Meeting the Needs of Today’s Older Adults
National Association of Area Agencies of Aging, December 2020, 36 pp.
This report summarizes findings from the 2019 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging, which gathered information on staffing, budget and services, as well as new and innovative initiatives underway at many AAAs across the country. more info >

Advancing Action, 2020: A State Scorecard on Long-term Services and Supports for Older Adults, People with Physical Disabilities, and Family Caregivers
AARP, September 2020, 64 pp.
Measures state-level performance of long-term services and supports from the viewpoint of user services and their families. more info >

Caregiving in the United States 2020
National Alliance for Caregiving, May 2020, 107 pp.
This report provides detailed profiles of different subpopulations of family caregivers, including information on caregivers age 75 and older, higher hour caregivers, male and female caregivers, and multicultural caregivers. It also explores the financial and workplace challenges facing caregivers. more info >

Redesigning Retirement and Human Resource Programs to Support Longer Lives
Stanford Center on Longevity, October 2019, 8 pp.
Explores ways in which employers can redesign their retirement and benefit programs and human resource policies to meet the needs of older workers and enhance the productivity of an aging workforce. more info >

The Aging of the Manufacturing Workforce
The Manufacturing Institute, July 2019, 29 pp.
Examines best practices that have enabled manufacturing firms to successfully navigate the aging of the manufacturing industry, including ways to support older workers and recruit and retain younger workers. more info >