Compendium of Community Aging Initiatives

Compiled by UC Berkeley's Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services, summarizes 121 community aging initiatives based on a survey of nearly 300 organizations identified through online searches.

Full report is available

Aging Well in Communities: A Toolkit for Planning, Engagement & Action

Center for Civic Partnerships has designed a toolkit aimed at assisting local governments in planning for their aging population. The report is divided into six sections: Planning Overview, Resident Surveys, Public Forums, Focus Groups, Case Studies, Resources.

Link to the full document via the Aging Well Toolkit Website

New York City: A City for All Ages

AARP International's The Journal features an article by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, which discusses New York City's Healthy Aging initiative, and the TimeBankNYC Project, a volunteer effort which aims to have neighbors help neighbors.

Full article is available

Aging at home: Neighborhoods evolve into retirement communities

Link to full article from the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, NY

Aging in Place: Services and Supports for Older New Yorkers - State Society on Aging of New York 38th Annual Conference

State Society on Aging of New York's 38th Annual Conference is being held in White Plains, NY from October 27th through 29th, 2010.
The preliminary program is available.

5 Major Money Issues for Seniors in 2011

U.S. News and World Reports  looks at the major financial problems facing seniors in the coming year. These include Social Security COLAs and Medicare policy changes.

Full article is available

In Their Own Words: Domestic Abuse in Later Life

U.S. Department of Justice  has created this workbook (to be used in conjunction with a training video) as an educational tool concerning the problems of physical, sexual, emotional, or verbal abuse facing many older Americans.  The training package is aimed at victim advocates, criminal justice professionals, health care providers, adult protective services workers, and aging services professionals and volunteers. 
Full report is available
Video Clips and information about DVD

Medicaid Policy and Long-Term Care Spending

Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government examines the generosity of states in providing coverage for long-term care expenses via Medicaid.  States can determine covered populations, amount, duration, and scope of services, amount of care provided, and administrative processes. 

Full report is available

Senior Housing in Canada: Reports from two papers

The Vancouver Sun reports on the Seniors' Rental Housing initiative, an effort to provide affordable rental housing to the senior community.

The Montreal Gazette discusses a recent petition that supported a zoning change, which will help create a non-profit senior complex beside a church.

Home ownership reduces the cost of home-based care among old adults

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute demonstrates the impact of home ownership on the likelihood of elderly persons entering into residential care, and the impact of home ownership vs. rental on the cost of their care.

Link to full report

Older people with high support needs

Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the barriers faced by older people with high support needs. The report examines these issues from the perspectives of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion or belief, sexual orientation, and poverty.

Full report is available

Health and Wealth in a Life-Cycle Model

Michigan Retirement Research Center looks at health investments over the life course.

Full report is available

Trends in Disability, Community Living, and Caregiving: Analysis of Data from the National Long-Term Care Survey

A study from AARP finds that the number of persons over the age of 65 with disabilities has decreased since 1984, and that community-dwelling older persons with disabilities are remaining outside care facilities with the help of assistive devices and family caregiving assistance.

Full report is available

Migration in later life: evidence from the British Household Panel Study

This study from the U.K. Office of National Statistics analyzes the factors that impact on an individual, over the age of 50, changing their place of residence. Persons in late middle age (50-59) and the those aged 90 and over were the most likely to relocate, primarily due to changes in partnership, health and economic status.

Full report is available

Housing Consumption in Late Life: The Role of Income, Health Shocks, and Marital Shocks

This paper from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College discusses the ways in which Social Security mediates the consequences of adverse health and marital "shocks" in later life.

Full paper is available

Access to Long-Term Services and Supports: A 50-State Survey of Medicaid Financial Eligibility Standards

AARP examines the use of waiver programs by some States to finance home and community-based services for elderly people eligible for nursing home services.

Full report is available

The demographic characteristics and economic activity patterns of carers over 50: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

U.K Office of National Statistics examines the demographic characteristics, caring patterns, health status and economic activity patterns of adults, over the age of 50 with carer responsibilities - especially childcare of grandchildren - to determine the effects on employment, lifetime earnings, and later-life income.

Full report is available