Overview of Long-Term Care in Five Nations: Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Norways, and the United States
After discusion about the possible approaches for conducting the international analysis, the International Collaborative Effort on Age research team concluded that the initial step in analysis should be to establish the 'context' of the research on outcomes of nursing home care. The purpose of this report is to describe the context of nursing home
From: Overview of Long-Term Care in Five Nations: Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Norways, and the United States
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Identifying Successful Families: An Overview of Constructs and Selected Measures
The study of family strengths has been pursued by researchers from a variety of disciplines, including psychiatry, sociology, psychology, and family/marriage counseling. This paper will present an overview of this growing literature, focusing on four topics: the definition of strong families; the characteristics of strong families as identified by
From: Identifying Successful Families: An Overview of Constructs and Selected Measures
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Risk Selection Among SSI Enrollees in TennCare
This paper examines risk selection among managed care plans for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries in Tennessee's Medicaid managed care program, TennCare, focusing in particular on TennCare's first two years (starting January 1994 and ending January 1996). Analysis starts with a review of the TennCare program, especially the characte
From: Risk Selection Among SSI Enrollees in TennCare
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Measuring Long-Term Care Work: A Guide to Selected Instruments to Examine Direct Care Worker Experiences and Outcomes
This Guide was developed to help long-term care providers devise appropriate surveys for measuring the experiences, behaviors and outcomes of Direct Care Workers (DCW) which might influence DCW retention and the long-term care work environment. This Guide can help organizations: (1) understand the importance of accurate measurement to guiding effe
From: Measuring Long-Term Care Work: A Guide to Selected Instruments to Examine Direct Care Worker Experiences and Outcomes
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Assessing the Economics of EMR Adoption and Successful Implementation in Physician Small Practice Settings
By: Moshman Associates, Booz, Allen, Hamilton This report is currently only available in PDF format.
SSI-Related Disabled Children and Medicaid
This report analyzed the 1984 Medicaid experience of all children passing the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability test in California, Georgia, and Michigan to determine the enrollment, utilization, and expenditure patterns of these children. The study estimated the proportion of Medicaid expenditures attributable to SSI-related disabled
From: SSI-Related Disabled Children and Medicaid
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Toward an Evaluation of the Quality Improvement Organization Program: Beyond The 8th Scope of Work
This project developed an inventory of Quality Improvement Program (QIO) activities and then proposed methodologies to evaluate Medicare's QIO in the future. The contractor gathered information from publicly available sources, from CMS data when available, and from nine site visits to a variety of QIOs. Based on the findings, NORC developed a list
An Estimate of the Number of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Receiving Supplemental Security Income Benefits and Their Characteristics
This paper was prepared as part of the Project to Design a Survey of Persons with Developmental Disabilities. The overall purpose of this project was to develop a national survey design that would provide data on a nationally representative sample of persons. This paper was conducted to develop a National Survey of Mentally Retarded and Developmen
From: An Estimate of the Number of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Receiving Supplemental Security Income Benefits and Their Characteristics
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Welfare Mothers as Potential Employees: A Statistics Profile Based on National Survey Data
When women who receive welfare benefits are compared with other women, both poor and non-poor, in the NLSY and other national sample surveys, welfare mothers are notably different from non-poor mothers. At the same time, these data show that there is considerable diversity within the welfare population. In particular, compared to short-term recipi
From: Welfare Mothers as Potential Employees: A Statistics Profile Based on National Survey Data
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Risk of Institutionalization: 1977-1985
This analysis compares predictors of institutional residency in 1977 and 1985 among two national cohorts of individuals who responded to national surveys of nursing home and community-dwelling elderly persons. A state-level analysis of change in predictors of state nursing home use rates for 1976 and 1986 was also conducted using aggregate state
From: Risk of Institutionalization: 1977-1985
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Estimating the Prevalence of Long-Term Disability for an Aging Society
This study was designed to provide comprehensive information about future long-term care needs in the U.S. Using data from the U.S. Decennial Census of Population and Housing, National Long-Term Care Survey and National Nursing Home Survey, the study developed detailed projections of the need for long-term care among the elderly in the years 2000,
From: Estimating the Prevalence of Long-Term Disability for an Aging Society
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Longitudinal Analysis of High Cost Medicaid Children in California
This report analyzed the Medicaid experience of children in California who had at least $25,000 in claims in 1983. The study analyzed their enrollment in claims experience over the period 1980-1986 in order to determine whether these children remain high cost over a number of years, and whether their eligibility changes over time. [35 PDF pages]
From: Longitudinal Analysis of High Cost Medicaid Children in California
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Variations in the Medicaid Safety Net for Children and Youth with High Medical Costs: A Comparison of Four States
This report analyzes the Medicaid experience of children and young adults with total annual Medicaid claims of $25,000 or more in California, Georgia, Michigan and Tennessee in order to better understand service utilization patterns and how they vary by age and other characteristics. An important part of the study involved analysis of the eligibil
From: Variations in the Medicaid Safety Net for Children and Youth with High Medical Costs: A Comparison of Four States
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Physical and Cognitive Impairment: Do They Require Different Kinds of Help?
Physical impairments are commonly believed to require relatively more active hands-on assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs) while cognitive impairments use relatively more supervisory or standby assistance. Using data from the 1984 National Long-Term Care Survey, this paper examines whether the type of assistance (active, standby,
From: Physical and Cognitive Impairment: Do They Require Different Kinds of Help?
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Programmatic Definitions of Disability: Policy Implications
This paper looks at programmatic definitions of disability for federal disability programs by: (1) reviewing and examining major programmatic definitions of disability, and (2) describing complex eligibility processes by using the Social Security Disability Insurance program as an example. Programmatic definitions are critical from a federal polic
From: Programmatic Definitions of Disability: Policy Implications
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Prevalence and Correlates of Unmet Need Among the Elderly with ADL Disabilities
This report examines how many disabled elderly are at risk because they do not receive the assistance they need in basic self-maintenance activities. The source of data was the 1982 and 1984 National Long-Term Care Surveys. The estimates of the number of elderly with unmet needs are sensitive to the way one defines "unmet need." Depending on the s
From: Prevalence and Correlates of Unmet Need Among the Elderly with ADL Disabilities
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A Study of Washington State TANF Leavers and TANF Recipients, Findings From the April-june 1999 Telephone Survey, Final Report
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This report analyzes the impact of current federal policies and programs on the growth of community living arrangements and supportive services for people with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities (MR/DD).
From: Report from the Working Group on Improving Public Policies and Programs Affecting Persons with Mental Retardation and Other Developmental Disabilities
Development of an Assistive Technology and Environmental Assessment Instrument for National Surveys: Final Report - Part I
The purpose of this project was to develop, pilot, and disseminate a set of instruments for national surveys to measure the use of assistive technology and the environments in which they are used. The project focused on older adults living in the community. The instruments have been designed as a series of modules that can be adopted in whole or p
From: Development of an Assistive Technology and Environmental Assessment Instrument for National Surveys: Final Report
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Infant Attachment: What We Know Now
In February 1991, ASPE sponsored a two-day research seminar on infant attachment. This final report has three major sections. The first part is a brief summary of an extensive literature review on infant attachment. The second section summarizes the proceedings of the seminar, which was based on the topics outlined in the literature review. The Re
From: Infant Attachment: What We Know Now
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