A new way of looking at private pay affordability of long-term services and supports Insight on the issues (AARP Public Policy Institute) Costs and Cost Analysis Home Care Services -- economics Long-Term Care -- economics Nursing Homes -- economics Private Sector -- economics The affordability of private pay services is an important component of long-term services and supports system performance. This Insight on the Issues presents data on private pay affordability for every state and more than 400 markets in the United States. There is wide variation in affordability between states and markets. Private pay nursing home care is not affordable for middle-income families anywhere. While less costly than nursing homes, home health care is still unaffordable for middle-income older people at typical levels of use. Washington, D.C. : AARP Public Policy Institute, c2012 Houser, Ari. AARP (Organization) Public Policy Institute (AARP (Organization)) Technical Report Text Illustrations nlm:nlmuid-101596420-pdf 101596420 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101596420 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0