...Robert L. Kane; Rosalie A. Kane; Richard C. Ladd; Wendy Nielsen Veazie Pressures to turn over responsibility for long-term care to the states will exacerbate the already sizable difference in such efforts. This article describes the nature of the interstate variation in the types and amounts of...

...Andrew I. Batavia; Gerben DeJong; Louise Bouscaren McKnew Long-term care for people with disabilities in this country traditionally has been provided through family members and friends. Federal and state policy has focused primarily on financing professional health care services provided through...

...William G. Weissert; Timothy Lesnick; Melissa Musliner; Kathleen A. Foley The Arizona Long-Term Care System is the first capitated, long-term care Medicaid program in the nation to operate statewide. It promotes an extensive home and community-based services program intended to lower long-term care...

...Katherine Swartz Karen Davis and Diane Rowland, Medicare Policy: New Directions for Health and Long-Term Care (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 137 pp., $19.50. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews...

... paper we analyze the potential of using home equity to finance long-term care of the elderly, including payments for home care and for long-term care insurance. We first estimate each homeowner's risk of need for care (and risk of institutionalization) and then calculate the degree to which home equity...

...Hirsch S. Ruchlin This study analyzes the failure of current regulatory efforts to elicit an acceptable level of performance in long-term care facilities and proposes a strategy for correcting that failure. Seven factors are identified as being responsible for the failure of current regulatory...

...Howard A. Palley AARP. AARP International Forum in Long-Term Care: 2003 Proceedings . Washington, DC: AARP, 2004. 40 pp. cloth. Tim Blackman, Sally Brodhurst, and Janet Convery, eds. Social Care and Social Exclusion: A Comparative Study of Older People's Care in Europe . New York: Palgrave...

...Frank A. Sloan; May W. Shayne; Christopher J. Conover Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) combine housing and long-term care (LTC) services, including personal and nursing home care. The amount of LTC that is prepaid varies by type of CCRC, with one-third offering extensive (fully...

... Academies Press. ____. 1996 . Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes: Is It Adequate? Washington, DC: National Academies Press. ____. 2000 . Improving Quality of Long-Term Care . Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Johnson, K. S., M. Kuchibhatala, R. J. Sloan, D. Tanis, A. N...

...Marc A. Cohen; Nanda Kumar; Thomas McGuire; Stanley S. Wallack Congress is considering proposals to improve its financing of long-term care. The key issue is whether it should support a social insurance program or a program targeted to a population group defined by income and assets. Social...

.... Crown , William , Walter N. Leutz, and John Capitman. Forthcoming. Economic Rationality: The Market for Private Long-Term Care Insurance, and the Role for Public Policy. Gerontologist. Families USA. 1990 . The Unaffordability of Private Long-Term Care Insurance. Washington, DC: Families USA...

...Evelyn Shapiro; Noralou P. Roos This article examines the use of acute beds by the elderly in Manitoba over the five-year period, 1972-1976. The analysis reveals that transfers of long-stay (greater than 90 day) elderly to long-term care facilities took longer in 1976 than in 1972 despite major...

...Robert B. Hudson This article addresses the policy issues and outcomes associated with the block grant option in long-term care (LTC). Block grants are being considered in a number of human service areas currently, especially in the wake of the 1980 elections. The article assumes that Medicaid and...

...Karl Pillemer As one solution to the widely perceived “crisis” in the long-term-care system, state and local agencies have developed methodologies which specify the amount and type of long-term-care services needed in an area. This article focuses on need-based methodologies, and criticizes the use...

...Christine E. Bishop Joshua M. Wiener, Laurel Hixon Illston, and Raymond J. Hanley. Sharing the Burden: Strategies for Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994. 390 pp. $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press...

... emergency response, but also long-term health care, risk communication, research, and economic assistance. Organizing an effective response challenges government institutions because the issues involved—eligibility for health care,the effects of low-level exposure to toxic agents, stress-related illnesses...

...William G. Weissert Recent expansion of Medicaid coverage to home-and community-based long-term care moves that payment program away from its traditional institutional bias. But tension over the appropriate role of home care and fears of budget-busting have caused the current administration to set...

... Certification System files, and the American Hospital Association Survey. Separate Tobit models are estimated for each DRG. The analysis shows that transfers to home health care are heavily influenced by the hospital's long-term care arrangement and by conditions in local nursing home and home health care...

... People. Beverly Hills: Sage. Pepper Commission. 1990 . A Call for Action. Report of the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Implications of the Clinton Health Reform Plan for Older Persons and Long-Term Care...

...David Falcone; Robert Broyles Race continues to impede access to health services, for acute as well as long-term care. Whites, for example, use disproportionately more days of nursing home care than do nonwhites, not simply because they are more likely to be private payers and, therefore, are...