Assisted Living Facilities & Residential Care

In this paper, the authors use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which represents the full Medicare population, regardless of living arrangement, to describe characteristics of elderly residents of both types of facility and the characteristics of the facilities. Our sample is limited to beneficiaries age 65 or older.

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.

This report compares the medication use of Medicare beneficiaries living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Descriptions of Medicare use include mean number of drug mentions per month of stay (scheduled and PRN drugs), and prevalence and duration of therapy by major drug classes.

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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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Catherine Hawes, Ph.D., Miriam Rose, M.Ed., and Charles D. Phillips, Ph.D., M.P.H. Myers Research Institute December 14, 1999 This report was prepared under #HHS-100-94-0024 and #HHS-100-98-0013 between HHS's ASPE/DALTCP and the Research Triangle Institute.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Discharged Residents Telephone Survey Data Collection and Sampling Report