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Aging & Disability

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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Beyond Market Concentration: Using Social Network Analysis to Explore Complex Ownership Structures of Nursing Homes Data Point

CMS has actively worked to enhance ownership transparency in the nursing home industry through a series of data releases. This brief utilizes data from these new CMS initiatives to explore ownership and market structures of nursing homes, providing insights into the complexity and dynamics of nursing home ownership.
ASPE Issue Brief

Use of Contract Staff in Nursing Homes Remains High After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Over one million Americans rely on nursing homes for care, yet nursing homes face challenges in recruiting and retaining staff. Nursing homes rely on registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nursing assistants (NAs) to provide care, but staff shortages that increased during the COVID-19 pandemic have persisted.
ASPE Issue Brief

Operationalizing the Definition of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Administrative Claims Data for Research

The existence of multiple operational definitions for intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) in analyzing administrative claims data for health services and public health research limits translation of study findings to inform policies, programs, and practice.
Report

New Jersey Home Care Workforce Case Study: Final Report

This New Jersey case study provides insights into the daunting challenges states face in seeking to address the home care worker shortage, which has become more acute as New Jersey and other states have striven to “re-balance” Medicaid long-term services and supports use and spending away from institutional care toward home and community-based services.
ASPE Issue Brief, Report

Direct Care Worker Wages

Direct care workers (DCWs) such as nursing assistants, home health aides, and personal care assistants play an essential role in the health and well-being of over 20 million Americans. Yet DCW wages are not enough to make jobs competitive with entry level positions in other industries with similar job requirements which exacerbates the challenges in recruitment and retention of these workers.
ASPE Issue Brief

Bridging Healthcare and Social Services for People Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers

People living with dementia often have complex health and social support needs that can best be met by health care and community-based providers working together. This brief examines promising practices for bridging community-based organizations and health care systems in the providing comprehensive dementia care.
ASPE Issue Brief

Use of Medicare-Covered Telerehabilitation for PT/OT/SLP Services during the COVID-19 PHE

This study examined the extent therapist practices and nursing homes adopted telehealth services for physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), and speech-language pathology (SLP); explored the major challenges and facilitators in adopting telerehabilitation services, and whether these services were effective in addressing patient care and staffing needs during the public health emergenc
ASPE Issue Brief

Identifying Employer Supports for Family Caregivers of Older Adults Issue Brief

Recruiting and retaining a talented workforce requires employers to implement supports for family caregivers who are balancing the dual roles of working and caregiving.
Report

Use of Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities by Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia

Inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) stabilize patients in a mental health crisis and provide services to patients with serious mental illnesses and those who may cause harm to themselves or others, including people living with dementia who have severe behavioral and psychological symptoms.
ASPE Issue Brief

Innovative 988 Crisis Service Systems for Children, Youth, and People with Disabilities

In 2020, Congress designated the new 988 dialing code to be operated through the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline was established to improve access to immediate support to meet the behavioral health crisis needs in the United States.