Title: Items of Interest to GHS Members

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Section/SPIG: Aging & Public Health

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Two new reports will be of interest to many GHS members:

AARP REPORT: "Beyond 50.05 A Report to the Nation on Livable Communities:
Creating Environments for Successful Aging," by Andrew Kochera, Audrey
Straight, and Audrey Straight (AARP Beyond 50, May 2005, 108p.).
<http://www.aarp.org/research/housing-mobility/indliving/Articles/beyond_50_communities.html>
Report is linked to at the bottom of the page under "Download Report."

COMMONWEALTH FUND MEDICARE CHARTBOOK: "Quality of Health Care for Medicare
Beneficiaries: A Chartbook," by Sheila Leatherman and Douglas McCarthy (May
2005, 182p.).
<http://www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htmdoc_id=275195>