Disability

Final Report Lynn Quincy Patricia Collins Kristin Andrews Christal Stone

This report analyzes new data from an experimental module to the 2006 Health and Retirement Study on assistive home features for near-elderly and older adults. In 2006, two-thirds of the population born in 1953 or earlier (ages 52 and older) had one or more assistive home features, about one-third added at least one of these features, and 40% used at least one feature in the last 30 days.

This report examines the potential for government-subsidized Health and Retirement Savings Accounts to fund future long-term care needs. It simulates long-term care account accumulations for today's young workers under various scenarios for government matching contributions.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services October 2007 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2007/adacplpi.pdf (39 PDF pages)

This paper describes the current status of advance directives and advance care planning in the disability community and identifies where gaps exist in policy, practice, and research. The aim is to better assure that the needs and issues of people with disabilities are considered and integrated into new policies designed to promote effective advance care planning.

This brief describes the key components of the HHA Partnering Collaborative model, implementation challenges and successes, and the results and implications from the evaluation. [9 PDF pages]

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.

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.