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Long-Term Services & Supports, Long-Term Care

ASPE conducts research, analysis, and evaluation of policies related to the long-term care and personal assistance needs of people of all ages with chronic disabilities. ASPE’s work also highlights the financing, delivery, organization, and quality of long-term services and supports, including those supported or financed by private insurers, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Administration for Community Living (ACL). This includes assessing the interaction between health care, post-acute care, chronic care, long-term care, and supportive services needs of persons with disabilities across the age spectrum; determining service use and program participation patterns; and coordinating the development of long-term care data and policies that affect the characteristics, circumstances, and needs of people with long-term care needs, including older adults and people with disabilities. 

Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long-Term Services and Supports

More than one-half of older adults, regardless of their lifetime earnings, are projected to experience serious LTSS needs and use some paid LTSS after turning 65. 

Older adults with limited lifetime earnings are more likely to develop serious LTSS needs than those with more earnings. 

However, fifty-six percent of older adults in the top lifetime earnings quintile receive some paid LTSS, and the likelihood of nursing home care does not vary much by lifetime earnings. Learn more.

Reports

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The Federal Role in the Move Toward Consumer Direction

This article is intended to provide historical perspective on the Federal Government's involvement in the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation as an example of the federal role in consumer direction. Specifically, it describes how previous research and analysis led to DALTCP's interest in sponsoring this social experiment and shaped our thinking about its purpose and design.

A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Results of a National Survey of Facilities

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.

A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Discharged Residents Telephone Survey Data Collection and Sampling Report

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

Writing the Check

This article discusses the different ways the public pays for long-term care services. It also discusses purchasing long-term care insurance. (Assisted Living Today, July/August 1999, Volume 6, Number 6, pages 36-39) [10 PDF pages]

Medicaid Billings for IDEA Services: Analysis and Policy Implications of Site Visit Results

Printer Friendly Version in PDF format (17 pages) This report is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/99/IDEA/

Research and Other Developments of Interest in Employer Group Long-Term Care Insurance

This article explains new research and policy initiatives undertaken by the White House and HHS. These initiatives, including a new study of the employer group market, will provide the information policymakers and consumers need to make informed decisions about long-term care insurance.