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| Policy Plus Action | The AARP Public Policy Institute Newsletter |
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| The pandemic has muddled key labor market trends, leaving economists to wonder if previous assumptions about the future workforce need rethinking. Prior to Covid-19, older workers were the fastest growing worker demographic, but today jobseekers ages 55 and older have the highest levels of long-term unemployment. And not only did the pandemic decimate the employment levels of older workers, but it also took a huge toll on the workforce’s largest generation: millennials. |
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| Adult Family Care (AFC) offers a lesser known alternative to nursing homes for people who need long-term services and supports. In AFC, residents live full-time in a house or other small residential setting where they receive assistance with activities of daily living, personal care, and help with medications and other health care tasks, in collaboration with health care professionals. First conceived more than 40 years ago, AFC offerings are in most states, yet many struggle to recruit providers and consumers. This latest installment in LTSS Choices, a series of reports on transforming LTSS, aims to educate consumers, advocates, and
state policy staff about the key features of adult family care, while also offering ideas for expanding its availability. |
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| The burden of student loan debt is growing among older borrowers, with 8.4 million such borrowers owing 22 percent of the outstanding student loan debt in 2020. Causes include parents co-signing private loans, the skyrocketing cost of education, and family incomes not keeping pace with inflation, among others. But regardless of the individual drivers, one impact is clear: the resulting threat to retirement security. And while the CARES Act offered temporary relief to borrowers with federal student loans, the issue demands permanent solutions. |
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Despite its promise, assistive technology—which includes any device, equipment, or system that improves functional capabilities for older adults and individuals with disabilities—stagnates in underutilization. Standing in the way are a host of roadblocks, from consumers lacking awareness on what’s available to knowing where to purchase the technology or receive training on it. One solution for expanding awareness and access: the building of partnerships among programs serving people who would benefit from assistive technology. This report, done in collaboration with the Administration for Community Living, provides
case studies of innovative efforts that are doing just that.
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These are the stories of two nurse leaders from different generations who found unique paths into nursing. One is Antonia Villarruel, a first-generation college student who today is dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. The other is Marcus Henderson, a staff/charge nurse on the child/adolescent unit at Fairmount Behavioral Health System in Philadelphia, who is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030. They sat down for an engaging and insightful conversation at a Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
summit about how they found and use their voices to help others.
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| RideSheet is a promising new tool that solves a mundane but critical problem for rural communities: coordinating needed transportation for clients who live in sparsely populated, vast regions where multiple agencies operate. A recent report on a pilot program details how the consulting company Full Path (hired by AARP) created an open-source software program that was simple, low-cost, and cloud-based to help agencies in rural Oregon interoperate more efficiently—and improve client service. |
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Editor-in-Chief: Susan C. Reinhard, RN, PhD, FAAN
Senior Writer/Editor: Carl Levesque |
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