Across the States 2012: New Report Compares Long-Term Services and Supports

Last week, the AARP Public Policy Institute released the ninth edition of its "Across the States 2012: Profiles of Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS)" reference report, providing a comprehensive picture of long-term services and supports in each state.

Some of the key findings in this year's report, which also includes a state-by-state breakdown, include:

• The population age 85 and older will triple from 2012 to 2050. This statistic holds true in Pennsylvania, as well as in the rest of the country.
• The estimated economic value of family caregiver contributions was $450 billion in 2009, almost four times as much as total Medicaid LTSS spending and almost seven times the amount of privately paid LTSS and home health care. Pennsylvania ranks 15th in the country for economic value of family caregiving, with almost $20 billion in family caregiver contributions.
• Publicly funded nursing facility expenditures remained nearly twice as high as HCBS expenditures in 2009. In Pennsylvania, there is even more of a disparity, with nursing facility expenditures more than twice as costly as HCBS.

Published for the past 18 years, the report helps inform policy discussions among public and private sector leaders in long-term services and supports throughout the United States. The report presents state and national data for more than 140 indicators, drawn from a wide variety of sources.

Click here to download the full report. Click here to download the Pennsylvania profile.

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