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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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NAPA
The National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA) creates an important opportunity to build upon and leverage HHS programs and other federal efforts to help change the trajectory of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) with input from a public-private Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services.
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Advanced SearchLong-Term Growth of Medical Expenditures - Public and Private
As the population of the United States ages, it will consume more health care. Older people suffer diseases and other medical problems to a greater extent than younger people. And with health care prices continuing to rise much faster than other goods and services, the use and societal cost of health care is expected to soar in the future.
The Effect of Cash and Counseling on Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Findings for Adults in Three States
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Effect of Cash and Counseling on Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Findings for Adults in Three States Executive Summary
Measuring Long-Term Care Work: A Guide to Selected Instruments to Examine Direct Care Worker Experiences and Outcomes
Kristen M. Kiefer, MPPLauren Harris-Kojetin, PhDDiane Brannon, PhDTeta Barry, PhDJoseph Vasey, PhDMichael Lepore, PhD Candidate Institute for the Future of Aging Services
Medicaid Treatment of the Home: Determining Eligibility and Repayment for Long-Term Care
This policy brief is one of five commissioned by HHS/ASPE on Medicaid eligibility policies for long-term care benefits. This brief provides a synopsis of how the home is treated in determining Medicaid eligibility for recipients of long-term care services and the circumstances under which Medicaid may recover spending no behalf of the recipient from equity held in real property.
Medicaid Liens and Estate Recovery in Massachusetts
This policy brief is one of six commissioned by HHS/ASPE on Medicaid eligibility policies for long-term care benefits. This brief describes the procedures used by the state of Massachusetts in the administration of its Medicaid Estate Recovery program, with a focus on the procedures used by the state in imposing Medicaid liens on real property. [31 PDF pages]
Medicaid Estate Recovery
This policy brief is one of six commissioned by HHS/ASPE on Medicaid eligibility policies for long-term care benefits. This brief provides an overview of state Medicaid Estate Recovery programs, which enable states to recoup public spending for Medicaid long-term care recipients from the estates of those recipients after their death. [12 PDF pages]
The Effects of Cash and Counseling on the Primary Informal Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disabilities
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Past, Present, and Future of Managed Long-Term Care
The study assesses the state of the managed long-term care market from the perspective of purchasers (states) and suppliers (managed long-term care contractors), addressing the following questions: (1) What is the current state of the managed long-term care market? (2) What value do managed long-term care products offer relative to the fee-for-service system?
Spouses of Medicaid Long-Term Care Recipients
This policy brief is one of five commissioned by HHS/ASPE on Medicaid eligibility policies for long-term care benefits. This brief outlines the Medicaid rules that affect community spouses of nursing home residents and widows or widowers of deceased nursing home residents. [12 PDF pages]