Long-Term Services & Supports (LTSS)

The purpose of this brief is to present summary findings from a comprehensive review of the literature and published data about buyers and non-buyers of private long-term care insurance, including members of the federal family. Understanding the motives behind peoples' choices can help to inform public policy as well as focus current and future market strategies.

This is the sixth in a series of data briefs based on the information collected from the buyers, non-buyers, and non-responders surveyed groups. The purpose of this brief is to answer three questions related to the purchase of the Federal LTC insurance program: (1) What are the characteristics associated with being a purchaser/enrollee in the Federal LTC insurance program?

This announces the launch of a comprehensive, searchable Web site that contains information on hundreds of technology products to improve quality of life and care in long-term care residential settings, http://www.techforltc.org/.

The purpose of the synthesis paper is to review, summarize, and discuss the significance of available research findings on the frontline long-term care (LTC) workforce since 1999, in both home and community-based and nursing home settings. This paper provides an updated review of the status of empirical findings, focusing on what has been learned between 1999 and 2003.

This paper provides the fundamental context of both the long-term care sector and the workforce investment system in order to build understanding among members of each system. It is not intended to be comprehensive but to provide enough information to stimulate dialogue. Section II briefly describes the characteristics of the long-term care paraprofessional workforce.

This literature review summarizes what is known about falls and fall prevention and identifies the components of effective strategies for reducing falls. Intertwined in the discussion are the results of interviews conducted with individuals representing nine fall prevention programs that have been identified as particularly successful.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Labor Measuring Long-Term Care Work: A Guide to Selected Instruments to Examine Direct Care Worker Experiences and Outcomes Executive Summary

The purpose of this report is to describe five federal workforce development programs and how some long-term care agencies and service providers use them to improve the recruitment and retention of direct care workers.

The goal of this report is to identify the individual-level factors associated with nursing home and assisted living entry and determine whether and how they differ. While it is possible to estimate a simple model of entry into these facilities at some point in the observation period, a more useful model would make use of data on elapsed time until such a transition.

The Department of Health and Human Services awarded a contract to launch a national initiative designed to improve recruitment and retention of direct care workers in the long-term care field.