Resource Hub

This AARP study presents a portrait of unpaid family caregivers today.

This PHI study provides an annual snapshot of the direct care workforce, including its demographics, occupational roles, job quality challenges, and projected job openings.

This PHI study presents wages to employment statistics, across states and nationwide, find the latest data on the direct care workforce.

This AARP report pulls from multiple sources to profile who family caregivers are and the challenges they face and includes several first-person accounts of the experience.

Articles in this series by New York Times and KFF examine how the immense financial costs of long-term care drain older Americans and their families.

This KFF report explains that nearly 6 million people receive Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS) for assistance with activities of daily living.

This MIT CoLab report explores financing models that create a more equitable system like social insurance and universal coverage.

This MIT CoLab report examines case studies of long-term care financing programs beyond Medicaid that have been utilized in the United States.

This MIT CoLab eport examines three international long-term care financing programs and provides lessons for policymakers to consider.

This MIT CoLab report examines how the American long-term care system exacerbates existing inequities between many groups, including direct care workers, older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers.

This MIT CoLab report explores the progress that four states (California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Washington) have made in building new long-term care social insurance programs.

This MIT CoLab report examines how the the American long-term care system is not up to the challenge of meeting our needs.

This Caring Across Generations report details how hard public policy makes it to create and maintain a family, and provides ideas about how we can change it so families thrive.

This NASI report examines state governments in the U.S. embark on the design and implementation of universal LTC programs, much can be learned from the experience of existing programs in Europe and Asia.

This UMass Boston report addresses how to pay for long-term services and supports (LTSS), if and when these needs arise.

This HCBS Conference report addresses the need for the need for LTSS reform.

This MIT CoLab brief explores actions that California can take to invest in and support undocumented home care workers.

This MIT CoLab report serves as a primer on co-op development as a key strategy to mitigate inequities that exist within the growing LTSS industry.

ICA Group explains, in its fifth year, the 2022 Home Care Cooperative Benchmarking Survey captured data on the state of the national home care cooperative sector.

This ICA Group resource presents in-depth home care cooperative market analysis in a handful of states and territories.

This AAI and AFREF report examines the role of private equity in home healthcare markets.

The Private Equity Stakeholder Project reports as the nation’s population ages, many elderly Americans have decided to receive assisted living or end of life services at home rather than in a facility, such as a nursing home.

This Center for Economic and Policy Research report brings together a full analysis of the CMS policies that have led to the financialization of home health.

This MIT CoLab report summarizes the activities and recommendations of the Mel King Community Fellows (MKCF): Leaders in NY Government Program.

This MIT CoLab report address how access to capital remains a critical challenge in marginalized communities.

This Kresge Foundation article explains how expanding access to long-term services and supports requires coalitions and resources. Worker co-ops offer a solution to workforce shortages in the sector, care and job quality.

MIT News reports how The Mel King Community Fellowship Program at MIT was founded by its namesake in 1970 and continues connecting changemakers across a range of social justice issues.

This May 2024 webinar recording includes an overview of the need for the long-term care resource hub and how different stakeholders can use the resource hub.

This April 2023 presentation recording includes an overview of lessons and progress made in LTSS reform in California, Washington, Hawaii, and Maine.

This May 2022 Mel King Community Fellow Fireside Chat includes a discussion of key LTSS policy considerations with national experts.

This May 2022 Mel King Community Fellow Fireside chat includes a discussion with key leaders on cooperative development and non-extractive financing in long-term care.