By Lisa Watts
The MIT Resource Hub offers reports, data, and strategies to transform long-term services and supports. LTSS Center Co-Director Marc Cohen contributed.
The Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently launched a Resource Hub aimed at transforming the field of long-term services and supports (LTSS) and better serving workers, consumers, and family caregivers.
Marc Cohen, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, contributed to the Resource Hub, which offers reports, state-specific data, and strategies for such initiatives as worker-owned cooperatives and equitable financing models.
“We know the long-term services and supports system is in a crisis, and we believe that solutions that focus on equity and affordability offer a path forward,” says Cohen, who also serves as research director at the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation at Community Catalyst.
Cohen supported the development of several studies and information pieces for the Resource Hub project as a member of the 2022-2023 class of Mel King Community Fellows at MIT. He and fellow policy and advocacy leaders from across the country collaborated for two years on efforts to improve the LTSS system by focusing on equity.
The MIT CoLab plans to update the Resource Hub as new data and reports are issued. The site includes an April 2024 report, “Financing Long-Term Services and Supports: A New Chapter of State-Based Solutions,” co-authored by Cohen. The report describes LTSS social insurance conversations in California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Washington. The site also includes a recent brief about how California can support undocumented home care workers.
Visit the Resource Hub.