Nursing Home Quality: State Agency Survey Funding and Performance
This policy brief describes the resources, staffing, and performance of state licensing and certification agencies based on findings from a survey of state survey agency officials.
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Managed Care for Low-Income Populations with Special Needs: The Tennessee Experience
ReportThis report focuses on Tennessee's experience in moving their disabled Medicaid beneficiaries into managed care.
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Nursing Home Transition Programs: Perspectives of State Medicaid Officials
ReportNursing Home Transition Programs: Perspectives of State Medicaid Officials This report draws on interviews with state Medicaid program officials for insight into the issues that arise in establishing programs to move individuals with significant long-term care needs from institutional to community settings.
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Home Transition Programs: Perspectives of Medicaid Care Planners
ReportHome Transition Programs: Perspectives of Medicaid Care Planners This report draws on interviews with Medicaid care planners for insight into the issues that arise in establishing programs to move individuals with significant long-term care needs from institutional to community settings.
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Private Long-Term Care Insurance: A Viable Option for Low and Middle-Income Seniors?
Issue BriefIn the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the federal government made it harder for individuals to qualify for Medicaid nursing home benefits by increasing penalties on individuals who have transferred assets for less than fair market value during the past five years and by making individuals with home equity above $500,000 ineligible for nursing home…
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Strategies to Keep Consumers Needing Long-Term Care in the Community and Out of Nursing Facilities
ReportIn recent years states have been trying to shift resources from institutional to home and community based long-term care services. This report examines "transition" and "diversion" policies and practices in eight states. It provides a sense of what state Medicaid programs are doing or could be doing to promote diversion. Report (.pdf) Executive Summary (.
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Multiple factors predispose women to needing long-term care
FeatureMultiple factors predispose women to needing long-term care Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Access to Care File, 2006…
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Characteristics of Women Family Caregivers
FeatureCharacteristics of Women Family Caregivers Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008 Kaiser Women’s Health Survey…
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Caregiver Responsibilities Among Women
FeatureCaregiver Responsibilities Among Women Download Source Henry J.
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Filling In The Long-Term Care Gaps
Event Date:EventAt a June 3 hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Executive Director on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testified on the key challenges to providing a larger role for private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care for the…