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Advanced SearchNational Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Summary of Demonstration and Reports
This paper presents an overview of the results of the National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration, conducted in ten states to test the impact of a community-based system of long-term care upon the functionally disabled elderly.
Prevalence and Correlates of Unmet Need Among the Elderly with ADL Disabilities
This report examines how many disabled elderly are at risk because they do not receive the assistance they need in basic self-maintenance activities. The source of data was the 1982 and 1984 National Long-Term Care Surveys.
Long-Term Care for the Boomers: A Public Policy Challenge for the Twenty-first Century
Although the current difficulties in developing an adequate system of long-term care are extensive, they pale in comparison to the challenges ahead as the "baby boomers" come of age.
Physical and Cognitive Impairment: Do They Require Different Kinds of Help?
Physical impairments are commonly believed to require relatively more active hands-on assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs) while cognitive impairments use relatively more supervisory or standby assistance.
Programmatic Definitions of Disability: Policy Implications
This paper looks at programmatic definitions of disability for federal disability programs by: (1) reviewing and examining major programmatic definitions of disability, and (2) describing complex eligibility processes by using the Social Security Disability Insurance program as an example.
Premium Pricing of Prototype Private Long-Term Care Insurance Policies: Final Report
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Publicly-Financed Home Care for the Disabled Elderly: Who Would Be Eligible?
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the variability in estimates of disability in the U.S. elderly population as a function of differing definitions of physical disability and cognitive impairment.
Effects of Multiple Admissions on Nursing Home Use: Implications for "Front-end" Policies
This study analyzes data from the 1985 National Nursing Home Survey to examine the phenomenon of multiple nursing home admissions. This is done in order to determine the number of individuals who would be fully covered if "front-end" nursing home coverage options were enacted.
The Disabled: Their Health Care and Health Insurance
This paper compares the health characteristics (health status, health insurance coverage, use of physician and hospital care, and cost of care) of persons with and without disabilities. Three separate analyses are included: one on children, one on working age adults (aged 18-64), and one on the elderly. Various levels of functional disability are also examined.