Aging & Disability

Board and care homes are non-medical community-based facilities that provide at least two meals a day and routine protective oversight to one or more residents with functional limitations. Unweighted data from the 1991 National Health Provider Inventory (NHPI) indicate that there were about 30,000 licensed board and care homes in the United States serving over half a million persons.

ASPE Research Notes INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKERS FOCUS ON: Long-Term Care Issued April 1993 Informal Caregiver Burnout: Predictors and Prevention PDF Version:

The purpose of this paper is to describe the diverse strategies that have been proposed for long-term care reform (for persons age 65+), and to present a balanced discussion of the points that have been made in support of, and in opposition to, each proposal. What the authors believe is "balanced" may not be perceived to be so by those who advocate a particular proposal, but so be it.

Since 1984, a number of welfare reform proposals intended to lessen dependence on AFDC have been enacted. The current Administration is continuing to address welfare dependency. The purpose of this paper is to update results on the disability status of women of AFDC based on the 1990 SIPP with welfare reform in mind.

Barbara Manard, William Altman, Nancy Bray, Lisa Kane and Andrea Zeuschner Lewin-VHI, Inc. December 16, 1992 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-89-0032 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the Lewin Group.

Landmark legislation has the power to change people's lives for many years to come. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), signed into law on July 26, 1990, is landmark legislation for Americans with disabilities. The four goals of the ADA — equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency — are broad in scope and bold in nature.

This booklet of long-term care and disability research has been prepared by the Division of Long-Term Care and Aging Policy, Office of Family, Community and Long-Term Care Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. It summarizes the results of the Division's research projects from 1989 through the present and highlights future plans.

ASPE Research Notes INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKERS FOCUS ON: Long-Term Care Issued April 1992 Estimating Eligibility for Publicly-Financed Home Care: Not a Simple Task... PDF Version:

The 1982 and 1984 National Long-Term Care Surveys (NLTCS) are household surveys of functionally impaired Medicare beneficiaries age 65+. The 1989 NTLCS is a resurveying of this population.

This report discusses the parameters of the model and provides examples of how these parameters can be changed to simulate alternative scenarios of the utilization and financing of nursing home and home care by elderly persons for the period 1986-2020. [94 PDF pages]