...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...

...Edward Alan Miller; Vincent Mor Government oversight of long-term care involves inspections of patients' records, limited observations of patients and care practices, reviews of policies and procedures, and distribution of publicly available information. Although many providers bemoan the stifling...

...-Setting and Hospital Cost Containment: All-Payer versus Partial-Payer Approaches. Health Services Research 22 : 307 -326. The Long Shadow of the Past: Risk Pooling and the Political Development of Health Care...

...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 Review Essays 415 Long-Term Care Alice M. Rivlin and Joshua M. Wiener with Raymond Hanley and Denise Spence, Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay? (Washington, DC: The Brook- ings Institution, 1988). Sean...

...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...

... impaired older adults in need of long-term services and supports (LTSS). Three strategies have been commonly pursued by state governments to improve LTSS: expanding noninstitutional care, integrating payment and care delivery, and realigning incentives through market-based reforms. These strategies were...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... . 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. Galanoa, and J. A. Tulsky. 2005...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...Edward Alan Miller; Pamela Nadash; Marc A. Cohen Abstract The growing need for long-term services and supports (LTSS) poses significant challenges to both individuals and government. This article documents the continuing failure to tackle this problem at the national level—a failure that was most...

...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...

...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...