AcademyHealth's successful Long-Term Care Colloquium series has brought together policymakers, providers, and researchers to ensure that long-term care research responds to the issues facing those in the field, and that study results reach those in a position to take action. Participants in the 2007 meeting rated their experience very highly, and many reported they intend to use what they learned to inform policymakers and others in their home state about key long-term care concerns. To reach a wider audience of state policymakers, the fifth colloquium will expand activities beyond the daylong meeting preceding AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting and the half-day policy seminar in Washington to include a presence at a national conference, such as the annual meeting of the National Academy for State Health Policy. Possible topics include pay-for-performance demonstrations and international models of long-term care.