The National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging: 2022 Results
The web-based survey was launched in September 2022 to all 616 AAAs.
Robert J. Graham • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Isha Karmacharya
Aging Network
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The AgeSmart Inventory: A Multifaceted Tool to Understand Age Bias
This paper describes the development of an inventory, created over four stages, designed to foster introspective and collaborative thinking about age-directed values.
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Lei Yu • Kate de Medeiros
Lifting the Veil: How Networks Form, Operate, Struggle, and Succeed
This qualitative study examines community-based organizations (CBOs) seeking to work with each other and to contract with health care entities to improve coordination, reduce fragmentation, and inc...
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Robert J. Graham • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott)
Greene County Council on Aging: 2021 Community Survey Findings
Read the survey results conducted to gain better understanding of the needs and interests of older Greene County residents. The Greene County Council on Aging partnered with the Scripps Gerontology...
Balancing Mission and Momentum
Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) are entering a new phase marked by a heightened focus on social determinants of health.
How do Area Agencies on Aging Build Partnerships with Health Care Organizations?
Partnerships between health care and social service organizations may contribute to lower health care use and spending.
Chris Rubeo • Leslie A. Curry • Jane Straker • Emily Cherlin • Traci L. Wilson • Amanda L. Brewster • Adeola Ayedun
Achieving population health impacts
Evidence-based health promotion programs can help older adults manage chronic conditions and address behavioral risk factors, and translating these interventions to population-scale impact depends ...
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Leslie A. Curry • Traci L. Wilson • Amanda L. Brewster
Strengthening Ties: Contracting Between Community-Based Organizations and Health Care Entities
The Aging and Disability Business Institute (Business Institute), led by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a), supports the business acumen of CBOs to enhance contracting with h...
Jane Straker • Traci L. Wilson • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott)
Local initiatives to fund services for older Americans: A growing option for states
This report is part of a series of promising practices and emerging innovations from the AARP Public Policy Institute 2020 LTSS State Scorecard.
Jennifer Heston-Mullins (Jennifer L. Heston) • Robert A. Applebaum
Fast-track innovation: Area Agencies on Aging respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
Millions of older Americans depend on services provided by Area Agencies on Aging to support their nutritional, social, and health needs.
Traci L. Wilson • Amanda L. Brewster • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Marisa Scala-Foley
Area Agencies on Aging are increasingly partnering with health care organizations to address the health-related social needs of older adults and contribute to multisector coalitions that promote co...
Amanda L. Brewster • Jennifer Frehn • Traci L. Wilson • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Diane Berish
Aging and Disability Business Institute: Final evaluation report
The Aging and Disability Business Institute (Business Institute), led by the National Association for Area Agencies on Aging (n4a), was established in 2016 with a mission to build and strengthen pa...
Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott) • Jane Straker • Traci L. Wilson • Suzanne R. Kunkel
The upcoming reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA) is an opportunity to acknowledge the expanding priorities for that landmark legislation, along with the forward motion of Area Agencies...
Mapping core concepts of person-centered care in long-term services and supports
This study used an empirical concept mapping approach to identify core components of person-centered care (PCC) used in long-term services and supports (LTSS). The aim is to help providers and rese...
Kimberly Van Haitsma • Yin Liu • Ann Marie Kolanowski • Donna M. Fick • Harleah G. Buck • Katherine M. Abbott • Gwen McGhan • Liza L. Behrens • Allison R. Heid • Martina Roes • Abby Spector
This study assessed satisfaction among current senior center users in the Northwestern Ohio area and measured the impact that centers have on the lives of participants.
Valerie Flores (Valerie Kessler) • Luyna Ducay • Jonathon M. Vivoda
Community-Based Organizations and Health Care Contracting: Building and Strengthening Partnerships
Community-based organizations (CBOs) such as Area Agencies on Aging and Centers for Independent Living are well-positioned within their communities to improve social determinants of health (housing...
Traci L. Wilson • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott) • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker
Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs)—which coordinate social services for older adults in communities across the US—regularly address social determinants of health, sometimes in partnership wi...
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Leslie A. Curry • Jane Straker • Amanda L. Brewster
Community-Based Organizations and Health Care Contracting
In 2016, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) received a grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation to develop a National Aging and Disability Business Institute.
Jane Straker • Erin Kelly • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott)
Participant Satisfaction and the Impact of Senior Center Services in Lucas County, Ohio
This study addressed satisfaction with services and impact of senior centers among center participants in Lucas County, Ohio.
Michelle M. McGuire • Jonathon M. Vivoda
The Influence of the Transportation Environment on Driving Reduction and Cessation
Driving is by far the most common mode of transportation in the United States, but driving ability is known to decline as people experience age-related functional declines.
Are Ohio's Nursing Homes Ready for an Emergency?
Study Identifies Strengths, Leads to Strategies for Improvement in Ohio Nursing Home Disaster Planning.
Cassandra L. Hua • Marc Molea • Ian Matt Nelson
Identifying naturally occurring retirement communities: A spatial analysis
Guided by the concept of “aging in place” and potential policy implications, the study analyzed naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs; 40% or greater house owners and renter...
Takashi Yamashita • Jennifer M. Kinney
This report documents two decades of progress in delivering long-term services in Ohio.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson • Jane Straker
This research record highlights the findings from a national survey of the Title VI Organizations (TO).
Heather R. Reece • Kathryn McGrew • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker
What the Paradox of Change Means for the Future of Aging Services
The aging services sector must foster and embrace change, evolving to meet the demands of our modern world, lest it go the way of companies like Kodak and Blockbuster-neither of which anticipated o...
The National Aging Network Survey 2013 Results
The 2013 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging builds on previous surveys to assess the evolving role of AAAs in the new health care delivery system.
Jane Straker • Heather R. Reece • Suzanne R. Kunkel
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared [book review]
This review brings to your attention current and/or award-winning novels that offer aging perspectives, and we hope you will consider their value for learning about aging.
Kate de Medeiros
Integrated Care and the Aging Network: The Next Frontier or the End of an Era?
The strong push to integrate Medicare and Medicaid services has been driven by the federal government through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and by states, in response to two maj...
Bridging the Aging Network and Medical Community Survey: Care Transitions from Hospital to Home
With a grant from the Administration on Aging (AoA), the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) partnered with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduct the 2012 Bridging the Aging Ne...
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Elizabeth Carpio • Jane Straker
Bridging the Aging Network and Medical Community: Survey Results
Older adults often need a full complement of services and supports to help them live independently while maintaining their physical or mental health.
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker • Elizabeth Carpio
2011 Title VI Native American Programs Survey Results
Summary of a survey conducted in 2011 of Title VI (Native American Organizations) to assess role of Title VI programs in offering services and supports to the elders in their communities.
Elizabeth Carpio • Kathryn McGrew • Jane Straker • Suzanne R. Kunkel
Nursing Home Transition and Diversion
AAAs provide a number of services that help individuals at risk for institutional care to remain in the community and to transition back to the community when long-term care facility placement is n...
Emily Robbins • Elizabeth Carpio • Suzanne R. Kunkel
Building systems for private pay continues to be an area of potential growth in business planning and outreach for the network.
Emily Robbins • Elizabeth Carpio • Suzanne R. Kunkel
Inherent in the principle of ‘enabling individuals to remain in their own homes’ is providing services with a self-directed option.
Elizabeth Carpio • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Emily Robbins
This report discusses the evolving role of the aging network in a balanced long-term care system based on the results of the 2010 National Aging Network Survey.
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Elizabeth Carpio
Right Place, Right Time, Right Care: An Evaluation of Ohio's Nursing Home Diversion and Transition
In 2010 the Ohio General Assembly asked the Ohio Department of Aging to develop and implement a nursing home diversion and transition initiative.
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Anthony R. Bardo • Robert A. Applebaum • Elizabeth Carpio
Ohio's Aging Network Efforts to Enhance Nursing Home Diversion and Transition
This brief report provides preliminary results from an evaluation of Ohio's diversion and transition demonstration program.
Elizabeth Carpio • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Anthony R. Bardo • Robert A. Applebaum
AAA Caregiving Survey Results summarizes the results of a mini survey of the nations 629 Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) on the support they provide to family caregivers.
Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott) • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Emily Robbins • Jane Straker
The survey was designed to access the role of Title VI Native American programs in offering services and supports to the elders in their communities.
Kathryn McGrew • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott) • Jane Straker • Suzanne R. Kunkel
This brief survey was designed to describe the capacity of the current AAA workforce and the activities undertaken by AAAs to build their future workforce capacity to meet the needs and service dem...
Jane Straker • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott)
The 2008 survey of Area Agencies on Aging was conducted by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) and Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University under a grant from the U.S. Ad...
Jane Straker • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Sandy Markwood • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott)
Emergency Readiness and Response: Area Agencies on Aging Survey
The 2008 survey on Emergency Readiness and Response was conducted by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) and Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University under a grant from t...
Jane Straker • Sandy Markwood • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott)
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging 2007 Aging Network Survey Reports
With a grant from the Administration on Aging (AoA), the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) partnered with Scripps Gerontology Center to conduct the 2007 Aging Network Survey of a...
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Evolution of the Aging Network: Modernization and Long-Term Care Initiatives
This article examines how the aging network has evolved since its inception, mandated by the Older Americans Act of 1965.
Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott) • Suzanne R. Kunkel
Scripps Gerontology Center
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