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Which Way for Long-Term Services and Supports Financing Reform?
Joshua M. Wiener, Galina Khatutsky, Nga Thach and Angela M. Greene RTI International Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (22 PDF pages)
National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease: 2016 Update
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Introduction
Challenges and Opportunities in Treatment Foster Care
This short research summary highlights findings to date from an ASPE study seeking to understand how states currently use treatment foster care to serve youth with serious emotional and behavioral disorders in the least restrictive possible setting.
The Impact of Prevention: Maltreatment Re-reporting in Six States' Differential Response Systems
This is a one page summary of a research brief published in June 2016. The study sought to determine whether children in counties that more frequently use alternative responses to respond to child maltreatment reports are more or less likely to be re-reported to child protective services and/or confirmed to have been victims of subsequent abuse or neglect.
The Complexities of Kinship Care: Key Findings from the 2013 National Survey of Children in Nonparental Care
This is a one page summary of a report published in May 2016. The summary presents key takeaway messages from the report which describes the characteristics and experiences of the approximately 2.3 million U.S. children who live with neither biological nor adoptive parents. Analyses are based on the 2013 National Survey of Children in Nonparental Care (NSCNC), the first large-scale,…
Report to Congress
Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors, Fifteenth Report to Congress
This report provides welfare indicators through 2013 for most indicators and through 2014 for some indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996. The report analyzes the proportion of individuals who receive more than half of their total family income in one year from the Temporary…
Report to Congress
Report to Congress: E-health and Telemedicine
This report responds to a request from the Committees on Appropriations of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. It examines the rapid proliferation of telehealth modalities when providing medical care and highlights HHS’s efforts to identify and address obstacles to e-health and telemedicine. The report explains ways that advances in telecommunications may bolster access to care…
An Evaluation of AoA's Program to Prevent Elder Abuse: Final Report
Carol Hafford, PhD and Kim Nguyen, PhD NORC at the University of Chicago Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (116 PDF pages) ABSTRACT
An Evaluation of AoA's Program to Prevent Elder Abuse: Final Report
In 2012, AoA awarded 5 cooperative agreements to test elder abuse prevention interventions to: Alaska Division of Senior and Disabilities Services (AK DSDS); New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA); University of Southern California-Irvine, Program in Geriatrics (USC); University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC); and, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and…
Picture of Housing and Health Part 2: Medicare and Medicaid Use Among Older Adults in HUD-Assisted Housing, Controlling for Confounding Factors
The report Picture of Housing and Health (released by ASPE in 2014), found high prevalence of chronic conditions and higher health care utilization for HUD-assisted Medicare beneficiaries compared to unassisted beneficiaries. This second report seeks to understand whether the characteristics of the sample could explain the higher utilization. The study compares health care utilization and…
Older Adults' Living Expenses and the Adequacy of Income Allowances for Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services
This brief assesses the adequacy of the income allowances granted to older Medicaid HCBS enrollees and their spouses. We measure household expenditures made by older households and compare them to the Medicaid HCBS income allowances provided by the state in which they reside, to see how much they would have to reduce their spending if they enrolled in Medicaid HCBS and did not allow their…
Later-Life Household Wealth Before and After Disability Onset
To assess the financial impact on families of LTSS needs and the potential for families to set aside funds to cover future LTSS spending, this brief examines later-life household wealth before and after disability onset. We followed over time a large sample of older adults who did not have any functional limitations at baseline, comparing the distribution and composition of household wealth for…
Preliminary Outcome Evaluation of the Balancing Incentive Program
This is a follow-up to four earlier evaluation reports on the Balancing Incentive Program (BIP). The BIP, legislated in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, offered states temporary enhanced federal financial participation for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS). Participation was limited to states that, as of 2009, were allocating less than 50% of Medicaid spending on long-term services…
ASPE Issue Brief
Picture of Housing and Health Part 2: Medicare and Medicaid Use Among Older Adults in HUD-Assisted Housing, Controlling for Confounding Factors
The Lewin Group Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (67 PDF pages)
Older Adults' Living Expenses and the Adequacy of Income Allowances for Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services
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Later-Life Household Wealth Before and After Disability Onset
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Preliminary Outcome Evaluation of the Balancing Incentive Program
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