...Jon B. Christianson This paper discusses the regulation of long-term care in the United States. First, it addresses alternate models of regulation that potentially could explain both enforcer and provider actions. Then it describes in more detail the incentives for enforcement of 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...

...Charles Brecher; James Knickman This article describes current problems in the financing and delivery of long-term care, and assesses several proposals for reform. Proposed financing changes are found to differ in their objectives, with some reforms seeking to shift from greater to lesser...

...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...

...Frank G. Williams; David Phoenix; Bradford L. Kirkman-Liff Arizona is adding long-term care to its prepaid, capitated alternative to Medicaid. This article discusses the potential for this major cost-control experiment. Experience suggests that those able to qualify for long-term care will fare...

...James J. Callahan, Jr. Teresa Schwab, Caring for an Aging World: International Models for Long-Term Care, Financing, and Delivery (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), 376 pp., $38.95. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Book Reviews 641 Stewart, David, and Lee Stewart. 1979...

...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...

...Theodore R. Marmor © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Health Reform 2010: The Missing Philosophical Premises in the Long-­Running Health Care Debate Theodore R. Marmor Yale...

...Cynthia Massie Mara Stone Robyn . Long-Term Care for the Elderly . Washington, DC : Urban Institute Press , 2011 . 172 pp. $26.50 paper. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Stone Robyn I. 2000 . Long-Term Care for the Elderly with Disabilities: Current Policy...

...Frederick R. Eisele; Richard R. Hoke Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Guest Editorial Health Care Policy and the Elderly: Toward a System of Long-term Care Frederick R. Eisele, The Pennsylvania State University and Richard...

...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...

.... 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...

...Joanna K. Weinberg Robert B. Hudson, ed. The Future of Age-Based Public Policy . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 384 pp. $52.50 cloth; $18.95 paper. Rosalie A. Kane, Robert L. Kane, and Richard C. Ladd. The Heart of Long-Term Care . New York: Oxford University Press, 1998...

...Joshua M. Wiener; Rose M. Rubin This study analyzes the potential effect on the Medicaid program of private sector financing mechanisms for long-term care. The data are from the Brookings-ICF Long-Term Care Financing Model and include projections over the next thirty years. While private financing...

...James M. Brasfield Alice M. Rivlin, Joshua M. Wiener, Raymond Hanley, and Denise Spence, Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay? (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1988). Sean Sullivan and Marion Ein Lewin, The Economics and Ethics of Long-Term Care and Disability (Washington...

...Frank J. Thompson; Joel C. Cantor; Jennifer Farnham Abstract Medicaid is vastly more important than Medicare or private insurance in funding long-term care (LTC). However, states vary tremendously in their commitment to Medicaid LTC. This article advances knowledge of the origins, nature, and...