Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

On August 8, 1991, the Division of Family and Community Policy within ASPE convened a meeting of family-related researchers to discuss the following questions: Why has so little family research impacted policy? What can be done to improve the situation? What issues are important to future research?

This paper focuses on the elderly, aged 65 and over, who are the primary users of long-term care in the United States. It examines their use of long-term care services, particularly home and community-based care. It describes the kinds of data available on the functionally impaired elderly and their use of such care. [20 PDF pages]

This compendium is published by the Division of Children and Youth Policy within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It summarizes the results of the Division's research projects from 1986 through the present.

In February 1991, ASPE sponsored a two-day research seminar on infant attachment. This final report has three major sections. The first part is a brief summary of an extensive literature review on infant attachment. The second section summarizes the proceedings of the seminar, which was based on the topics outlined in the literature review.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This paper presents an overview of the results of the National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration, conducted in ten states to test the impact of a community-based system of long-term care upon the functionally disabled elderly.

When women who receive welfare benefits are compared with other women, both poor and non-poor, in the NLSY and other national sample surveys, welfare mothers are notably different from non-poor mothers. At the same time, these data show that there is considerable diversity within the welfare population.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and EvaluationU.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1991 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/prodefes.pdf (26 PDF pages)

The Congress, HHS, and other federal agencies have expressed considerable interest in the adequacy of current programs and policies affecting severely disabled children, particularly those who are technology dependent and whose health and medical care place catastrophic financing and caregiving burdens on their families.