The Home Health Aide Partnering Collaborative is a quality improvement project developed and implemented at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. The primary purpose of the Collaborative was to enhance the quality of work life for home health aides while improving outcomes for home health patients.
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This paper describes the relationship between the type of insurance coverage a person has in one period and the likelihood of becoming uninsured in the next.
Gauging the Use of HCBS Supports Waivers for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Final Project Report
This report contains the following major sections: Methods. This section briefly describes how the information contained in this report was obtained and compiled. HCBS for People with I&DD.
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An Overview of the US Health System Chart Book
Report authors : George Greenberg, Nancy DeLew Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Service Use and Transitions: Decisions, Choices and Care Management among an Admissions Cohort of Privately Insured Disabled Elders
The purpose of this study is to obtain a comprehensive demographic, health and attitudinal profile of individuals with private long-term care (LTC) insurance policies at the time that they begin using paid LTC services in their current service setting.
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
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
A Framework for Identifying High-Impact Interventions to Promote Reductions in Late-Life Disability
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Evaluation of New Measures of Assistive Technology and the Home Environment from the 2005 Pilot Study of Technology and Aging
The purpose of this report is to highlight the analytic properties of the assistive technology and environment measures in the final recommended module. The authors address three distinct but complimentary questions: (1) How do questions that combine several environmental features or devices (global measures) compare with more detailed items?