...Michael K. Gusmano Jacquelyn Beth Frank. The Paradox of Aging in Place in Assisted Living . Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2002. 240 pages. $79.95 cloth. David Barton Smith. Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City . Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. 224 pages...

... on the adoption, revision, and generosity of state prescription drug programs from 1990 through 2001. We find strong evidence that organized interests had little influence on the adoption of state pharmaceutical assistance programs but can influence their likelihood of revision and the generosity...

...) or physician-assisted suicide(PAS) legislation. In-depth, qualitative interviews with forty-five physically disabled residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, conducted by others with disabilities, revealed a wide breadth of opinions about and attitudes toward such legislation. For close to half...

... in Political Science . Unpublished manuscript. fhss.byu.edu/polsci/Wilson/papers/index.html (accessed June 2004). Assisting Altruism: Evaluating Legally Binding Consent in Organ Donation Policy...

...Nancy S. Jecker Derek Humphry. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying . Eugene, OR: The Hemlock Society, 1991. 192 pp. $16.95 cloth. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Jecker , N. S. 1991 . Giving Death...

... nursing homes and home health agencies. An alternative to these models of long-term care is the “independent living model,” which is based on the provision of services by nonprofessional personal assistants in the disabled person's home. We describe the model and consider why it is not the dominant...

...Ezekiel J. Emanuel Charles F. McKhann. A Time to Die: The Place for Physician Assistance . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 268 pp.$31.00. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.2-04 Book Review 3/28/00 4:05 PM Page 377 Book Review Editor’s...

...Timothy E. Quill Linda L. Emanuel, ed. Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical,and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide. Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1998. 304 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 American Medical Association...

...Janet Heald Forlini; Felicia Cohn; Joanne Lynn Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, and Anita Silvers, eds. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate . New York:Routledge, 1998. 463 pp. $75.00 cloth; $21.99 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Freeborn, N. In press...

...Dorothy Robyn; Jack Hadley This article considers a number of issues which might arise in formulating policy for new health occupations. Its particular focus is on nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants and their treatment under potential national health insurance arrangements...

...Robert C. Buxbaum M. Shain, H. Suurvali, and M. Boutilier, Healthier Workers: Employee Promotion and Employee Assistance Programs (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986) Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 364 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law than it has...

... Vermonters who sought medical assistance in dying, her deep interviews with caregivers, health care providers, and others shed light more generally on the complexity of issues surrounding end-of-life care. For example, Buchbinder reveals how patient and caregiver values act in concert with cultural norms...

...Sara Rosenbaum; Sara Schmucker Abstract Enacted as part of the watershed Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI prohibits discrimination by federally assisted entities on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Indeed, the law is as broad as federal funding across the full range of programs...

...Rukmalie Jayakody; Sheldon Danziger; Harold Pollack Reform has transformed traditional entitlement to cash welfare under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) into a transitional program known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). Because of the new work requirements...

... demonstration waiver, the state will use federal funding via a premium assistance model to secure private health insurance offered through the newly formed health insurance marketplace to those individuals aged nineteen to sixty-four who have incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level...

... hygienist, occupational therapy assistant, physical therapy assistant, radiologic technologist, and respiratory therapist). Findings: With one exception for one allied health profession, all states require their licensing boards to consider past serious criminal convictions. A majority of states require...

... at risk for low-quality care before the disaster occurred while better identifying those in need of evacuation or assistance afterward. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Angelelli, J., V. Mor, O. Intrator, Z. Feng, and J. Zinn. 2003 . Oversight of Nursing Homes: Pruning the Tree or Just...

...: loss of the very federal funding on which the ability to provide coverage rests. The third wave would have gone further, not only destroying Medicaid's open-ended funding structure but also stripping states of the option to extend federally-financed assistance to all poor working-age adults. The effort...