This report explores and contrasts the efforts of eight sites to improve the community-based long-term care system as a whole and the efforts required to improve the quality or availability of specific services to individual seniors.

The learning capacity of older adults has direct, practical implications for professionals trying to educate older people and their families about health care services and benefits, especially in Medicare. This issue brief discusses how older people learn and explores research from the field of...

The Community Partnerships for Older Adults program provided grants to eight community partnerships to develop and implement creative strategies for improving awareness about long-term care and supportive services systems. This brief examines three partnerships—Aging Atlanta, El Paso...

This is the final report on findings from an evaluation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that was mandated in the CHIP Reauthorization Act. The evaluation was conducted by Mathematica Policy Research and its partner The Urban Institute, and was overseen by the Office of...

This working paper used measurements of accelerometer-based and self-reported physical activity from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2006 to develop and validate a set of models for predicting objective moderate to vigorous physical activity from self-report variables...