“Giving States A Tool To Improve Long-Term Services and Supports,” by Susan C. Reinhard, Wendy Fox-Grage, Ellen O’Brien, Health Affairs

“AARP’s Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) State Scorecard aims to pick up the pace of improving LTSS by providing comparable state data to benchmark performance, measure progress, identify areas for improvement, and improve lives. The Scorecard includes twenty-five indicators in five dimensions of performance: affordability and access, choice of setting and provider, quality of life and quality of care, support for family caregivers, and effective transitions. The numbers give comprehensive, multidimensional insight into LTSS. Our goal is for the Scorecard to stimulate a dialogue among key stakeholders, encouraging them to collaborate on strategies for improving a given state’s LTSS system.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

Although better than nothing, this AARP “scorecard” is much less useful than the “Across the States, 2012” source it replaces.

Giving States A Tool To Improve Long-Term Services and Supports

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