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Opportunities to Improve Survey Measures of Late-Life Disability: Part I - Workshop Overview
This issue brief provides background information on issues that could be raised at the Workshop on Improving Survey Measures of Late-Life Disability (May 17, 2005). The authors include a brief review of disability measurement issues, and offer a framework for thinking about disability measurement that will shaped the workshop panels and presentations. [62 PDF pages]
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
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A Framework for Identifying High-Impact Interventions to Promote Reductions in Late-Life Disability Vicki A. Freedman, Nancy Hodgson, Joanne Lynn, Brenda Spillman, Timothy Waidmann, Anne Wilkinson, and Douglas A. Wolf Project Team September 27, 2006 PDF Version (90 PDF pages)
The Daily Activities of the Community-Dwelling Elderly: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Daily Activities of the Community-Dwelling Elderly: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Timothy WaidmannThe Urban Institute
Vicki FreedmanUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
September 27, 2006
PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2006/cdelderly.pdf (43 PDF pages)
An Introduction to the National Nursing Assistant Survey
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services An Introduction to the National Nursing Assistant Survey Marie R. Squillace, PhD, Robin E. Remsburg, PhD, Anita Bercovitz, PhD, Emily Rosenoff, MPA, and Laura Branden, BA September 2006 PDF Version (71 PDF pages)
The Daily Activities of the Community-Dwelling Elderly: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Building on recent advances in the conceptualization of disability, this report uses data on how older Americans spend their time to provide insights into enhancements to common survey measures of activity limitation and participation restrictions experienced in late life. The authors use the 2003-2005 waves of the American Time Use Survey to assess how well the common ADL and IADL instruments…
An Introduction to the National Nursing Assistant Survey
The National Nursing Assistant Survey is sponsored by ASPE; its design and fielding were made possible through collaborations with two independent research organizations and a sustained partnership with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). As the first in a series of papers produced by ASPE and NCHS, this report highlights relevant research that led to federal interest in sponsoring…
First Year Impacts of the Heritage Keepers Life Skills Education Component
Prepared for: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Washington, DC 20201 Prepared by: Melissa A. Clark and Barbara Devaney Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Contract No.: HHS 100-98-0010
Report to Congress
Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2006
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2006 Indicators of Welfare Dependence, the ninth annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 2003, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and…
Report to Congress
Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2006
Contributors to this report include Gil Crouse, Sarah Douglas, Susan Hauan and Julia Isaacs of the Office of Human Services Policy under the direction of Jerry Regier, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
A limited number of copies of this year’s report also are available from:
Inventory of Affordable Housing Plus Services Initiatives for Low and Modest-Income Seniors
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Inventory of Affordable Housing Plus Services Initiatives for Low and Modest-Income Seniors
Mary F. Harahan, Alisha Sanders, M.P.Aff., and Robyn Stone, Dr.P.H.
Institute for the Future of Aging Services, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
August 2006
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A Synthesis of Findings from the Study of Affordable Housing Plus Services for Low and Modest-Income Older Adults
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Effect of State Community Rating Regulations on Premiums and Coverage in the Individual Health Insurance Market
Some states have implemented community rating regulations to limit the extent to which premiums in the individual health insurance market can vary with a person's health status. Community rating and guaranteed issues laws were passed with hopes of increasing access to affordable insurance for people with high-risk health conditions, but there are concerns that these laws led to adverse selection…