This Policy Brief helps fill an important gap in our understanding of medication patterns in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) by comparing use and spending for prescription and over-the-counter drugs during skilled nursing facility (SNF) stays and related non-qualifying long-term care facility episodes.
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Advanced SearchDoes High Caregiver Stress Lead to Nursing Home Entry?
Brenda C. Spillman and Sharon K. Long Urban Institute January 26, 2007 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-03-0011 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the Urban Institute.
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An Overview of Recent Work on Standard Budgets in the United States and Other Anglophone Countries
Service Use and Transitions: Decisions, Choices and Care Management among an Admissions Cohort of Privately Insured Disabled Elders
This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-02-0014 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and LifePlans, Inc.
Gauging the Use of HCBS Support Waivers for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Profiles of State Supports Waivers
A project was funded by ASPE to: (a) gather descriptive information on HCBS waivers, both comprehensive and supports, operated for people with I&DD in 17 states with the supports waivers; (b) determine how supports waivers have emerged as separate and distinct HCBS waivers; (c) better understand the range of participant characteristics and experiences that distinguish supports waivers from
A Framework for Identifying High-Impact Interventions to Promote Reductions in Late-Life Disability
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Opportunities to Improve Survey Measures of Late-Life Disability: Part I - Workshop Overview
This issue brief provides background information on issues that could be raised at the Workshop on Improving Survey Measures of Late-Life Disability (May 17, 2005). The authors include a brief review of disability measurement issues, and offer a framework for thinking about disability measurement that will shaped the workshop panels and presentations. [62 PDF pages]
Opportunities to Improve Survey Measures of Late-Life Disability: Part II - Workshop Summary
Vicki A. Freedman University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Timothy Waidmann and Brenda Spillman Urban Institute
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2006
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2006 Indicators of Welfare Dependence, the ninth annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 2003, reflecting changes that have taken place since ena