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Aging & Disability

ASPE produces policy research focusing on older adults, Medicare, dual-eligible beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and caregivers. Resources relating to aging and disability include advance directives, end-of-life care planning, elder abuse, long-term services and supports (LTSS), home and community-based services (HCBS), and healthy aging.

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Population Profile of Disability

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

A Pilot Study fo the Adequacy of Post-Hospital Community Care for the Elderly: Final Report

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Report on Problems and Suggestions for Improving the NLTCS Files for 1982 and 1984

This paper summarizes the problems with and suggestions for improving the National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS) files. It incorporates many of the concerns and ideas users stated at a Forum on the NLTCS. It outlines concrete areas where improvements and increased technical support are needed so that the research community can conduct the most useful and credible studies possible.

Review of State Quality Assurance Programs for Home Care: Final Report

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Long-Term Care and Disability Research: 1986-1989

This compendium is published by the Division of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Social Services Policy. It summarizes the results of the Division's research projects from 1986 through the present and highlights future plans.

Long-Term Care Service Use: Longitudinal and Predictive Models Final Report

This study describes community and institutional service use patterns over a five year period (1982-1987), based on secondary analyses of longitudinal data for over 4,000 Massachusetts elderly. Emphasis was placed on community service use of persons judged to be at high risk of institutional placement.

Small Area Estimation of Dependency: Final Report

Health planning efforts for the elderly have been hampered by the lack of reliable estimates of the non-institutionalized long-term care population. Until recently national estimates were virtually non-existent, and reliable local estimates remain unavailable.

The Use, Cost, and Economic Burden of Nursing Home Care in 1985

This study uses the 1985 National Nursing Home Survey to examine the use and cost of nursing home care among the elderly population of the United States. The following questions are addressed: How many persons aged 65+ use nursing homes in a given year? How do they stay and what are their annual charges? How often, and to what extent, do residents "spenddown" to Medicaid?

National Conference on Home Care Quality: Issues and Accountability--Volume I Proceedings

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The Effect of Nursing Home Use on Medicaid Eligibility

This paper presents results of a descriptive analysis of the effects of nursing home use of Medicaid eligibility status. Data from the 1982 and 1984 National Long-Term Care Surveys were used to "track" a cohort of disabled elderly persons residing in the community in 1982 over the following two years.