The United States has no comprehensive and coherent national long-term-care policy
focusing on affordable, community-based assistance for people with disabilities (Litvak et al …

Long-term care for people with disabilities in this country traditionally has been provided
through family members and friends. Federal and state policy has focused primarily on …

Data were gathered from 154 US programs providing personal assistance services for the
disabled. The survey identified approximately 850,000 people receiving community-based …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the service experiences and outcomes of low-income Medicaid
beneficiaries with disabilities under two different models for organizing home-based …

Distinctions between home care and residentially based care are blurring because of two
trends: home care providers are offering services, including personal assistance, outside of …

This article presents descriptive statistics from the 1982 Long-Term Care Survey on
noninstitutionalized elderly Americans with limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) and …

Policy Points: Nearly half of elderly Medicare beneficiaries have difficulty performing daily
activities without assistance or receive help with such activities. This help is most often from …

Long-term care policy has evolved with little attention to racial differences in the need for
and use of services. Using 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey data on nursing …

The concerns of consumers, providers, payers, and policy makers. sumer input), an
increasing number of community providers and consumers of longterm care support more …

The in providing critical role care offamilies, to elderly especially relatives women,(as well in
providing care to elderly relatives (as well as younger relatives with disabilities) is well …