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Nursing Home Selection: How Do Consumers Choose? Volume I: Findings from Focus Groups of Consumers and Information Intermediaries
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Home Selection: How Do Consumers Choose? Volume I: Findings from Focus Groups of Consumers and Information Intermediaries Executive Summary
Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts: Summary of Data Warehouse Efforts in Nine States
Prepared by: The Lewin Group: Karen Gardiner, Mike Fishman, Asaph Glosser, Matthew Langley and SRA International, Inc.: David Vennergrund Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts Through Improved Use of Information on Debtor Income
Prepared for: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Office of Human Services Policy and the Administration for Children and Families/Office of Child Support Enforcement Prepared by: Karen Gardiner, Mike Fishman, Sam Elkin, and Asaph Glosser The Lewin Group
Gauging the Use of HCBS Support Waivers for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Profiles of State Supports Waivers
A project was funded by ASPE to: (a) gather descriptive information on HCBS waivers, both comprehensive and supports, operated for people with I&DD in 17 states with the supports waivers; (b) determine how supports waivers have emerged as separate and distinct HCBS waivers; (c) better understand the range of participant characteristics and experiences that distinguish supports waivers from…
Nursing Home Selection: How Do Consumers Choose? Volume I: Findings from Focus Groups of Consumers and Information Intermediaries
The goal of this report is to present a review of a subset of the Internet sites that may be used to inform a consumer's selection of a nursing facility. As part of this content review, the authors reviewed 29 websites; 13 websites were national in scope and 16 were state specific. The following states were considered in our search for and review of websites: California, Iowa, Florida, Ohio,…
Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts Through Improved Use of Information on Debtor Income
Contents Background Summary of Findings Implications for State Child Support Enforcement Agencies Background The recently released National Child Support Enforcement Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2005 to 2009 recognizes that the Federal-state child support enforcement program, operated under the authority of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (IV-D) is no lo
Gauging the Use of HCBS Support Waivers for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Profiles of State Supports Waivers
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Gauging the Use of HCBS Support Waivers for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Profiles of State Supports Waivers Gary Smith, Jon Fortune and John Agosta Human Services Research Institute October 2006 PDF Version (124 PDF pages)
Nursing Home Selection: How Do Consumers Choose? Volume I: Findings from Focus Groups of Consumers and Information Intermediaries
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Home Selection: How Do Consumers Choose? Volume I: Findings from Focus Groups of Consumers and Information Intermediaries Lisa R. Shugarman and Julie A. Brown RAND Corporation December 2006 PDF Version
Exploring Community Responses to Statutory Rape
This report summarizes nine case studies by The Lewin Group that explore how states and communities are responding to statutory rape. Exploratory site visits suggest that addressing and preventing these unequal partnerships is difficult to accomplish by any single program or governmental agency. Instead, a range of service providers and governmental entities are involved, including health care…
Assessing the Economics of EMR Adoption and Successful Implementation in Physician Small Practice Settings
By: Moshman Associates, Booz, Allen, Hamilton This report is currently only available in PDF format.
Exploring Community Responses to Statutory Rape
Exploring Community Responses to Statutory Rape Final Report Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Prepared by: Michael Fishman, Karen Gardiner, and Asaph Glosser The Lewin Group September 30, 2006 This report is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/08/SR/CommResp
Opportunities to Improve Survey Measures of Late-Life Disability: Part I - Workshop Overview
Vicki A. Freedman, Ph.D. Polisher Research Institute Timothy Waidmann, Ph.D. Urban Institute
Opportunities to Improve Survey Measures of Late-Life Disability: Part II - Workshop Summary
Vicki A. Freedman University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Timothy Waidmann and Brenda Spillman Urban Institute
Evaluation of New Measures of Assistive Technology and the Home Environment from the 2005 Pilot Study of Technology and Aging
The purpose of this report is to highlight the analytic properties of the assistive technology and environment measures in the final recommended module. The authors address three distinct but complimentary questions: (1) How do questions that combine several environmental features or devices (global measures) compare with more detailed items? (2) How can measures of the home environment be…
A Framework for Identifying High-Impact Interventions to Promote Reductions in Late-Life Disability
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Evaluation of New Measures of Assistive Technology and the Home Environment from the 2005 Pilot Study of Technology and Aging
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
A Framework for Identifying High-Impact Interventions to Promote Reductions in Late-Life Disability
Considerable evidence now suggests that the prevalence of disability among older Americans is declining; however, how best to implement intervention strategies to promote continued or accelerated declines in disability prevalence remains unstudied. The purpose of this report is to develop and begin to demonstrate a new framework for comparing the population-level effects of different types of…