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The Homecoming Project: Wisconsin's Nursing Home Transition Demonstration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Homecoming Project: Wisconsin's Nursing Home Transition Demonstration Steve Eiken, David Stevenson and Brian Burwell The MEDSTAT Group July 17, 2002 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2002/WItrans.pdf (29 PDF pages)
Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program
The report presents findings from the process and implementation analysis component of the evaluation, and describes the service delivery operations of programs funded with WtW grants in eleven study sites. This report is based on (1) information collected through two rounds of site visits in 1999 and 2001, and (2) management information system data maintained by the programs on participants and…
Understanding the Costs of the DOL Welfare-to-Work Grants Program
This report examines the costs of selected Dept. of Labor Welfare-to-Work (WtW) grantees as part of the HHS evaluation of the WtW program. The main objectives of the WtW cost analysis were to understand the cost structure of these programs and factors that influenced their costs. The report estimates total WtW program costs, allocation of costs across different activities, costs per participant,…
Study of Medicare Home Health Practice Variations: Final Report
The objective of this report is to summarize the findings from the quantitative and qualitative methods used to answer the key study questions. The report provides a description of the states, agencies, and patients that participated in the study. Quantitative data are used to (1) examine the influence of patient, provider, agency, and market/regulatory factors on practice patterns, (2) explore…
The Contribution of Medication Use to Recent Trends in Old-Age Functioning
The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which changes in medication use account for improvements in functioning among older Americans. Using several waves of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative survey of non-institutionalized Americans ages 51-61, the authors examine changes between 1992 and 1998 and between 1994 and 2000 in the prevalence of functional…
The Homecoming Project: Wisconsin's Nursing Home Transition Demonstration
This paper--which is one of a series of Appendices which will be included in the demonstration's final report-- begins with a description of Wisconsin's Homecoming Project, followed by a summary of the program's results. The report then discusses how project staff responded to barriers to nursing home transitions, how nursing home transitions continued after the Demonstration project ended, and…
Understanding the Costs of the DOL Welfare-to-Work Grants Program
The Welfare-to-Work (WtW) grants program is one of several major federally funded initiatives to help welfare recipients and other low-income parents move into employment. In 1997, the Balanced Budget Act authorized the U.S. Department of Labor to award $3 billion in WtW grants to states and local organizations. These grants were intended to support efforts to help the hardest-to-employ…
Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program
Contents Three general program models for delivering services to the hard-to-employ were implemented in programs in the study sites. WtW grantees focus on the most disadvantaged, as specified in congressionally established provisions, but most programs have faced difficulties enrolling eligible individuals. WtW programs go beyond job readiness and self-directed job search assistance in the sense…
The Contribution of Medication Use to Recent Trends in Old-Age Functioning
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Study of Medicare Home Health Practice Variations: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
State Welfare-to-Work Policies for People with Disabilities: Implementation Challenges and Considerations - Executive Summary
Pamela A. Holcomb and Terri S. Thompson The Urban Institute This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-95-0021 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the Urban Institute. For additional information about the study, you may visit the DALTCP home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/home.htm or contact…
Study of Fathers’ Involvement in Permanency Planning and Child Welfare Casework
Prepared under contract to ASPE, with funding from ACF by: Freya Sonenstein, Karin Malm, and Amy Billing The Urban Institute Submitted to: Federal Project Officer: Laura Feig RadelAssistant Secretary for Planning and EvaluationU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program
By: Demetra Smith Nightingale Nancy Pindus John Trutko (The Urban Institute) With Contributions by Michael Egner Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Project Officer: Alana Landey Submitted by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
The Contribution of Medication Use to Recent Trends in Old-Age Functioning
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Contribution of Medication Use to Recent Trends in Old-Age Functioning Vicki A. Freedman, Ph.D., and Hakan Aykan, Ph.D. Polisher Research Institute, Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life(formerly the Philadelphia Geriatric Center) August 2002 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2002/oldagemu.pdf (54 PDF pages)
Study of Medicare Home Health Practice Variations: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)
Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act by Fred H. Wulczyn Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago August, 2002 This paper is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/fostercare-issues02/ASFA/index.htm
Understanding the Costs of the DOL Welfare-to-Work Grants Program
by: Irma Perez-Johnson, Debra Strong, and Michelle Van Noy With Contributions by: Charles Nagatoshi Submitted to: Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Project Officer: Alana Landey Submitted by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Project Director: Alan Hershey
Michigan's Transitioning Persons from Nursing Homes to Community Living Program
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Michigan's Transitioning Persons from Nursing Homes to Community Living Program Steve Eiken, Brian Burwell and Anthony Asciutto The MEDSTAT Group July 31, 2002 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2002/MItrans.pdf (26 PDF pages)
Securing the Benefits of Medical Innovation for Seniors: The Role of Prescription Drugs and Drug Coverage
This report examines the consequences to medical innovation and overall health posed by attempts to contain drug expenditures by implementing government controls.
Confronting the New Health Care Crisis: Improving Health Care Quality and Lowering Costs By Fixing Our Medical Liability System
With rapidly rising health care costs, reforms are needed to make high-quality, affordable health care more widely available. A critical element for providing real relief for both patients and physicians is comprehensive reform of our current medical liability system. Multimillion-dollar judgments have steadily increased insurance premiums for many specialty areas and prompted many physicians to…