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...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...

...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...

...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...

... serves as a safety net for individuals once they have impoverished themselves; private long-term care (LTC) insurance coverage is highly limited. About 5.7 million people aged 65 years and older require some level of help with their basic living activities because they are unable to perform at least two...

...., nursing home beds) are added, the explained variance increases to 52 percent and 17 percent, respectively. Medicare replaces some—but not most—of the difference in Medicaid home and community-based services payments. Nursing home care is inextricably associated with long-term care (LTC...

... of this inclusive rate and the increased payment, the quality of care did improve. However, these revisions also led to the official sanctioning of hospitals to provide long-term institutional care and to increases in the number of chronic care units. When public long-term care (LTC) insurance...

... Medicaid-­funded long-­term care (LTC); LTC preferences, needs, and preparation; and LTC in the corrections system. She studied LTC in Canada as a Fulbright Research Chair. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters and coedited The Handbook of Long-­Term Care Administration and Policy. She...

..., compared to Medicare's 45 million. But Medicaid does substantially more than provide health insurance to millions of low-income families. It plays a crucial role in providing needed long-term care (LTC) services for the elderly and disabled as well. For example, it covers 70% of the elderly residing...

..., and Kenneth Goodman, can be ordered from the American Public Health Association, Publication Sales, POB 753, Waldorf, MD 20604-0753, (301) 893-1894, 170 pp.; $26 for APHA members, $37 for nonmembers. LTC Choice: A Simple, Cost-Free Solution to the Long-Term Care Financing Puzzle is a white paper produced...

... questions continue to loom: end-of-life and long-term-care (LTC) reforms. In “Do Advance Directives Direct?” Susan Shapiro takes an in-depth look at end-of-life cases in one major hospital setting among patients with an advance directive. Although previous literature reveals that advance directives...

... of Regents of the University of Texas, 1998. 183 pp. $17.00 paper. Creating Consumer Choice in Healthcare: Measuring and Communicating Health Plan Performance Information. Rick Curtis, Trisha Kurtz, and Larry S. Stepnick, eds. Chicago: Health Administration, 1998. 250 pp. $38.00 paper. LTC Choice...

... share Percentage of total Medicaid LTC expenditures +   of LTC expenditures directed at nursing homes (t - 1) Medicaid program Medically needy program (t - 1) +   eligibility Home care availability Home health agencies per 100,000 (t - 1) - Nursing home supply...

...: receiving LTC, 10/95 indiv. under 100% FPL DC D.C. Managed Care...

... pp. $140.00 paper. Nationalism: A Critical Introduction. Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003. 238 pp. $29.00 paper. Long-Term Care (LTC) Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City. David Barton Smith. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. 224 pp...

... impoverishment” reflects the emergence of Medicaid as Amer- ica’s de facto long-term care (LTC) program (Grogan and Patashnik 2003). Medicaid’s transformation into a key social support for the mainstream elderly requires careful scrutiny because it has fundamentally shaped both the program’s internal...

.... Stepnick, eds. Chicago: Health Administration, 1998. 250 pp. $38.00 paper. LTC Choice: A Simple, Cost-Free Solution to the Long-Term Care Financing Puzzle. Center for Long-Term Care Financing. Seattle, WA: Center for Long-Term Care Financing, 1998. 37 pp. $24.95 paper. ...

... Disability of the Elderly o Entry into Disability o Recovery from Disability I I Simulate Utilization of LTC Services o Institutional Services o Non-institutional Services I...

... Care Cost Containment in the European Union , ed. Elias Mossialos and Julian Le Grand, 573 -603. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. O'Shaughnessy, Carol, and Julie Stone-Axelrad. 2004 . Medicaid LTC Spending, U.S. FY 1990-FY 2002 . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society on Aging...

... year. These four groups were “MCO [managed care organizations],” “Medicaid” recipients, “VA/DOD [Veterans Affairs/ Department of Defense]” patients, and “elderly patients” receiving “LTC [long-term care]” (Janssen 2003a ). Plans to target the VA/DOD market included creating a “blanket purchase...

... (LTC) coverage by public programs, the emergence of LTC policies (e .g . , coverage for pro- . Cohen and Barnea Commercial Health insurance 797 Table 4 Characteristics of Sick Fund Health Insurance, Mandatory Supplemental Health Insurance...