A generally consistent finding of community-based long-term care demonstrations, including Channeling, is that these programs do not lead to net reductions in long-term care expenditures. Even though reducing nursing home costs was a goal of these demonstrations, none involved systematic managerial and resource allocation strategies specifically designed to research this goal.
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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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The National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA) creates an important opportunity to build upon and leverage HHS programs and other federal efforts to help change the trajectory of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) with input from a public-private Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services.
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Advanced SearchReport from the Secretary's Task Force on Elder Abuse
The purpose of this paper is to provide background information which summarizes various perspectives on the definitions, incidence and causes of abuse of elderly citizens in institutional and domestic settings. Also, this paper will describe the range of programs, both in HHS and in the states, that address elder abuse.
Brookings/ICF Long-Term Care Financing Model: Model Assumptions
This report provides pertinent details about the variables, data, and equations on which the Brookings/ICF Long Term Care Financing Model is based. It is designed for those interested in learning precisely how the model generates its results.
Brookings/ICF Long-Term Care Financing Model: Designing and Using Model Simulations
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Reducing Nursing Home Use Through Community Long-Term Care: An Optimization Analysis Using Data from the National Channeling Demonstration
Vernon L. Greene, Ph.D., Mary E. Lovely, Ph.D., Mark D. Miller, M.S., and Jan I. Ondrich, Ph.D. Syracuse University
Brookings/ICF Long-Term Care Financing Model: Programmer's/Operator's Manual
The Brookings/ICF Long Term Care Financing Model is available to interested researchers. However, access to a mainframe computer and significant amounts of computer time are required. The computer tape containing the code of the model and associated input data can be purchased through NTIS.
Brookings/ICF Long-Term Care Financing Model: User's Guide to Specifying Simulations
This report discusses the parameters of the model and provides examples of how these parameters can be changed to simulate alternative scenarios of the utilization and financing of nursing home and home care by elderly persons for the period 1986-2020. [94 PDF pages]
An Analysis of the Impact of Spend-down on Medicaid Expenditures
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
A Synthesis and Critique of Studies on Medicaid Asset Spenddown
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Policy Issues Affecting the Medicaid Personal Care Services Optional Benefit
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services