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Why Do Elders Receiving Informal Home Care Transition to Long Stay Nursing Home Residency?
High stress reported by informal (unpaid, mostly family) caregivers providing functional assistance to chronically disabled elders residing in the community is a very powerful predictor of care recipients' subsequent transition from community living to long-stay nursing home residence.
Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report, 2014 Edition - Executive Summary
Janet O'Keeffe, Dr.PH, RN, Christine O'Keeffe, BA, and Madhu Shrestha, BS RTI International Abstract Adult day services (ADS)--a non-residential service provides outside an individual's home for less than a full day--provides direct care to older adults and younger adults with physical disabilities.
ASPE Issue Brief
Why Do Elders Receiving Informal Home Care Transition to Long Stay Nursing Home Residency?
Brenda Spillman Urban Institute December 2014 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format: http://aspe.hhs.gov/pdf-report/why-do-elders-receiving-informal-home-care-transition-long-stay-nursing-home-residency (47 PDF pages)
Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report, 2014 Edition
Janet O'Keeffe, Dr.PH, RN, Christine O'Keeffe, BA, and Madhu Shrestha, BS RTI International ABSTRACT Adult day services (ADS)--a non-residential service provides outside an individual's home for less than a full day--provides direct care to older adults and younger adults with physical disabilities. These services also meet caregivers' need for respite in order to work, fulfill other obligations…
ASPE Issue Brief
How Many Individuals Might Have Marketplace Coverage After the 2015 Open Enrollment Period?
Survey Data on Health Insurance Coverage for 2013 and 2014
By: Kenneth Finegold and Munira Z. Gunja The Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace coverage became available on January 1, 2014, and its Federally-financed, state-optional, Medicaid expansion started on the same day. Since then, millions of Americans have gained coverage through each of these sources, and total insurance coverage has expanded markedly.
Information on the Supplemental Poverty Measure - A Summary of 2013 Current Population Survey Data
The brief summarizes findings from the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure report for 2013. The brief highlights SPM levels for the most recent year, changes from the previous year and historical trends. SPM estimates are compared to estimates of the official poverty measure. The brief also presents the anti-poverty effects of select social safety net programs and includes technical…
Child Care Subsidy Duration and Caseload Dynamics: A Multi-State Examination
This report provides an examination of the length of time that low-income families receive government-funded child care subsidies that pay for part or all of the cost of their care arrangements. The figures presented are based on ASPE's analysis of a restricted-use version of child care subsidy administrative data from 35 states. In general, the data presented in this report show that families…
Information on the Supplemental Poverty Measure - A Summary of 2013 Current Population Survey Data (October 2014)
The brief summarizes findings from the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure report for 2013. The brief highlights SPM levels for the most recent year, changes from the previous year and historical trends. SPM estimates are compared to estimates of the official poverty measure. The brief also presents the anti-poverty effects of select social safety net programs and includes…
Minimizing Disclosure Risk in HHS Open Data Initiatives
Federal agencies have a long history of releasing data to the public, and they also have a legal obligation to protect the confidentiality of the individuals and organizations from which the data were collected. Federal agencies have successfully balanced these two objectives for decades.
ASPE Issue Brief
Health Insurance Issuer Participation and New Entrants in the Health Insurance Marketplace in 2015
By Munira Z. Gunja and Emily R. Gee
Information On Poverty And Income Statistics: A Summary of 2014 Current Population Survey Data
This brief analyzes and summarizes the poverty rates for various populations in the United States. Cited statistics include changes in the poverty rate and number of children in poverty by age, race and ethnicity, and family type. The data are based on information collected in the 2014 and earlier Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS ASEC) conducted by…
A Temporary Haven: Children and Youth are Spending Less Time in Foster Care
This research brief highlights the gains the foster care system has made in safely discharging youth from foster care in a timely manner, particularly those entering foster care for the first time. For nearly two decades federal policies have emphasized the importance of reducing the lengths of stay in foster care and avoiding what is known as " foster care drift'" both by mandating timelines for…
ASPE Issue Brief
Willing, Able-> Ready: Basics and Policy Implications of Readiness as a Key Component for Implementation of Evidence-based Interventions
This brief is one in a series exploring issues related to the implementation of evidence-based interventions. It describes the basics of readiness using the R=MC2 (Readiness = Motivation × General Capacity and Intervention-Specific Capacity) heuristic, examines some of the policy implications of readiness, and identifies directions for future research. “Readiness” refers to the extent to which an…