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Persons With Mental Retardation and Related Conditions in Mental Retardation Facilities: Selected Findings from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey
AbstractThis report presents selected statistics gathered on residential facilities designated as mental retardation facilities and on the residents of those facilities as part of the Institutional Population Component of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES). The report is divided into 4 parts. Part 1 presents general background to and overview of the National Medical Expenditure…
Design for Survey of Persons with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities: Summary of Recommendations for Survey Questions and Screening Criteria
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Design for Survey of Persons with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities: Summary of Recommendations for Survey Questions and Screening Criteria Rita Stapulonis, Joy Gianolio, Susan A. Stephens and Craig V.D. Thornton Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. November 29, 1989 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/sumofrec.pdf…
Design for Survey of Persons with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities: Summary of Recommendations for Survey Questions and Screening Criteria
This document contains brief summaries of recommendations for survey items to be included in the Survey of Persons with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. The domains covered by these recommendations are based on the core set identified in consultation with the Technical Advisory Group and HHS. [49 PDF pages]
A Report on Infants and Children with HIV Infection in Foster Care
Approximately 800 HIV-infected children nationally were in foster care placement as of June 1989. This study was designed to define the specific problems related to providing foster care to children with HIV infection. A major element of the project was to conduct site visits to areas with a high incidence of AIDS in children and to learn how organizations have grappled with the issues of…
A Report on Infants and Children with HIV Infection in Foster Care
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A Report on Infants and Children with HIV Infection in Foster Care November 14, 1989 PDF Version
Caregiver Burden and Institutionalization, Hospital Use, and Stability of Care: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Caregiver Burden and Institutionalization, Hospital Use, and Stability of Care Baila Miller and Stephanie McFall University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Associated Health Professions November 1989 PDF Version (89 PDF pages)
Caregiver Burden and Institutionalization, Hospital Use, and Stability of Care: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Activities of Daily Living, National Surveys and Long-Term Care Cost Estimates: Two Current Initiatives
This paper was presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 17-21, 1989. It focuses on several problems associated with making estimates using activities of daily living and highlights some of the methodological work carried out or sponsored by HHS to overcome these problems. [14 PDF pages]
Use of Functional Criteria in Allocating Long-Term Care Benefits: What Are the Policy Implications?
This paper discusses the policy implications of allocating long-term care benefits to the elderly on the basis of objective functional criteria, particularly functioning in the activities of daily living (ADLs). Although research has documented the link between measures of ADL performance and the need for services, developing a long-term care program which allocates resources on the same basis…
Caregiver Burden and Institutionalization, Hospital Use, and Stability of Care: Final Report
This study assessed a variety of longitudinal models to examine the effect of different types of caregiver burden on outcomes important to policymakers: nursing home admissions, hospital use, and stability of the family and formal care networks. Analyses were carried out on the 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS) and the 1984 NLTCS Longitudinal Follow-up, along with the 1982-1983 Informal…
Use of Functional Criteria in Allocating Long-Term Care Benefits: What Are the Policy Implications?
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Use of Functional Criteria in Allocating Long-Term Care Benefits: What Are the Policy Implications? Mary E. Jackson, Ph.D., and Brian O. Burwell SysteMetrics/McGraw-Hill November 1989 PDF Version
The Activities of Daily Living, National Surveys and Long-Term Care Cost Estimates: Two Current Initiatives
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Activities of Daily Living, National Surveys and Long-Term Care Cost Estimates: Two Current Initiatives Robert F. Clark U.S. Department of Health and Human Services November 1989 PDF Version (10 PDF pages)
Measuring the Activities of Daily Living Among the Elderly: A Guide to National Surveys
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Measuring the Activities of Daily Living Among the Elderly: A Guide to National Surveys
The activities of daily living (ADLs) are the basic task of everyday life: eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, and transferring. Although persons of all ages may have problems performing ADLs, disability prevalence rates are much higher for the elderly rising steeply with advancing age. When an effort is made to standardize ADL items for comparison, estimates for the community-based…
Evaluation of the 1989 Child Care Supplement in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
This report summarizes the results of a special experiment in the collection (from 347 mothers) of detailed current and retrospective child care information carried out in conjunction with the 1989 (11th round) wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. It addresses a number of child care data quality and evaluation issues, and provides some recommendations for subsequent data collection…
Evaluation of the 1989 Child Care Supplement in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Evaluation of the 1989 Child Care Supplement in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Frank L. Mott and Paula Baker Center for Human Resource ResearchOhio State University October 1989 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/89ccsup.pdf ( PDF pages)
A Pilot Study fo the Adequacy of Post-Hospital Community Care for the Elderly: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Federal Role in Foster Care: A Paper on Current Priority Issue Areas
This report uses interviews with HHS staff, pertinent legislative committees, and children and youth advocacy organizations in order to express how each group would like to change the existing foster care system. Systemic and social factors currently challenging the foster care system are described including: the increase in substantiated child abuse cases, the breakdown of the child welfare…
The Federal Role in Foster Care: A Paper on Current Priority Issue Areas
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Federal Role in Foster Care: A Paper on Current Priority Issue Areas Karl Ensign U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation September 1989 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/frfoscar.pdf (45 PDF pages)