Home health care is long-term care, primarily skilled nursing, delivered in a home setting. Its
provision may increase the likelihood that the elderly, the vast majority of which are …

I examine how decreases in government coverage of home health care visits to the elderly
in the United States have affected their living arrangements. Specifically, I exploit …

This paper analyses the impact of Medicaid home care benefits on the probability of nursing
home entry and the use of formal and informal home care by disabled elderly remaining in …

Prologue: Home health care is an expanding piece of the US health care pie. While hospital
care spending increased by 11.1 percent in 1990 and physician services spending by 11.0 …

Over the last twenty-five years, the homeownership rate of households 65 years and older
has risen steadily, while the homeownership rate for 35–64 year old households has …

Of the key federal programs that finance in-home services to the elderly, the Medicare
program represents the largest and fastest growing. Although Medicare is a federal program …

During the period 1980 to 1985, growth in the number of persons served by Medicare home
health was the largest source of growth in Medicare home health expenditures. Population …

Using a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy to study the market for home
health care, I find that the introduction of tightly binding average per-patient reimbursement …

Prologue: Thirty years of research and current estimates on the high and escalating costs of
services demonstrate that home care is neither cost-effective nor efficacious in improving …

Except for Social Security and, for some, employer-provided pension assets, housing equity
is the most important asset of a large fraction of older Americans. In principle, these assets …