Long-Term Services & Supports (LTSS)

This paper — which is one of a series of Appendices included in the demonstration's final report — describes a case study of the Michigan Nursing Home Transition Demonstration program.

To fulfill a Presidential mandate, the Department of Health and Human Services established the New Freedom Initiative Workgroup to review efforts that have been initiated in response to the Olmstead decision, and to recommit and refocus the Administration's efforts in promoting the full participation of adults with disabilities in community life.

Jessica Miller, M.S., Boryana Dimitrova, M.A. and Marc Cohen, Ph.D. LifePlans, Inc. This report was prepared under contract #BPA-OS-01-0267C between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and LifePlans, Inc.

The purpose of this analysis is to gain a better understanding of how having a private LTC insurance policy interacts with and affects the use of Medicare financed home health, skilled nursing and inpatient services. The authors used Medicare claims data and linked it to a sample of 578 community-based disabled elders receiving benefits under their LTC insurance policies.

This paper reports on meetings of the Technical Expert Panels (TEPs) that were formed as part of the project "Frontline Workers in Long-Term Care." TEPs were established to address the following three areas as they relate to direct care workers in long-term care settings: (1) Extrinsic rewards and incentives, such as wages and fringe benefits; (2) Workplace culture, which focuses on the organiz

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Differences Among Services and Policies in High Privacy or High Service Assisted Living Facilities

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