Reports

Marilyn Moon Urban Institute  

This summary is intended to restate the major research questions being addressed in the Pennhurst Longitudinal Study and provide executives, decisionmakers, and lay persons, in an extremely abbreviated form some tentative answers based on the analysis of the data collected to date.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Clinical Baseline Assessment Instrument Set Temple University, Institute on Aging 1983 PDF Version (68 PDF pages)

The primary objective of the research in the National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration was to determine the impacts of the demonstration on service utilization, public and private costs, clients and caregivers. The demonstration employed a randomized experimental design with random assignment of eligible participants to either treatment group or control group status.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This paper describes a practical step-by-step approach to negotiating memoranda of understanding. Although they were written for Channeling agencies, the techniques as described would be useful for any social service agency interested in developing formalized interagency agreements. The document includes model agreements. [26 PDF pages]

Agencies operating under the National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration program had complex assignments to assess the needs of older people requiring long-term care, to determine what services met such needs and to arrange for the delivery of services. Responsibility for a client was spread across several agencies, organizations, and individuals.

Elias S. Cohen, J.D., and Linda S. Staroscik, M.A. Temple University, Long Term Care Gerontology Center

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

These Papers describe the current state of knowledge about long-term care in the U.S., and serve as a knowledge base for the difficult analytic tasks that lie ahead. They are based on the work of HHS's Task Force on Long-Term Care up to January 1981 and contain data that have not been available before.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This preliminary report addresses a number of issues pertaining to the development of a combined research and clinical instrument for assessing the functional status of clients in the National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Prepared by: R. William Thomas Abt Associates Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Contract:  HEW-100-76-0179 Each chapter of the Report is in PDF format.  Download a copy of the reader.

PRIVACY PROTECTION STUDY COMMISSION Chairman: David F. Linowes, Certified Public Accountant, New York City, and Boeschenstein Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy, University of Illinois Vice Chairman: Dr. Willis H. Ware, The Rand Corporation Santa Monica, California

Transmittal Letter to Secretary Honorable Caspar W. Weinberger Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Dear Mr. Secretary:

An Historical Guide to HEW Excerpt from DHEW Publication No. (OS) 73-45 (July 1, 1972)