Community Services and Long-Term Care: Issues of Negligence and Liability

Elias S. Cohen, J.D., and Linda S. Staroscik, M.A.

Temple University, Long Term Care Gerontology Center

This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-80-0157 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Social Services Policy (now DALTCP) and Mathematica Policy Research. For additional information about this subject, you can visit the DALTCP home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/home.htm or contact the office at HHS/ASPE/DALTCP, Room 424E, H.H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201. The e-mail address is: webmaster.DALTCP@hhs.gov. The DALTCP Project Officer was Robert Clark.

This manual was developed through partial support of a grant to the Long Term Care Gerontology Center of Temple University by the Administration on Aging, Office of Human Development Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Grant #AoA9GAL0011-01 and through partial support of Contract #HEW-100-80-0133 to the Contractor for Technical Assistance and Training to Demonstration Projects in the National Channeling Demonstration Program, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

We are indebted to the contribution made by the Site Directors and Case Management Supervisors of the National Long Term Care Channeling Demonstration Program, (NLTCCDP) the Staff of the Technical Assistance Contractor of the NLTCCDP and Robert Wolfe, J.D.

Elias S. Cohen is the Director of the Division of Public Policy and Information Dissemination at the Temple University Long Term Care Gerontology Center. Linda S. Staroscik is a member of the Staff of the Division.