consequent difficulty living independently, living in the community requires not only medical and support services, but also housing. All too often, however, housing sponsors and long-term care providers operate in isolation, leading at best to frustration on the part of individuals, who must piece together workable housing and service arrangements, and at worst to otherwise avoidable instituti...

Evolving family structure and economic conditions may affect individuals' ability and willingness to plan for future long-term care (LTC) needs. We applied life course constructs to analyze focus group data from a study of family decision making about LTC insurance. Participants described how past exposure to caregiving motivated them to engage in LTC planning; in contrast, child rearing discou...

Two experiments investigate the ability of four-year-old children to spontaneously process relations as well as elements in an immediate recognition task. The experiments also test predictions of a model proposed to account for differential processing of elements and relations. Both experiments used a two-item forcedchoice task. In each experiment, children accurately recognized the target, reg...

Since 2007, the federal Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration has funded states’ efforts to help Medicaid beneficiaries who are elderly or have disabilities leave long-term care institutions, if they wish to do so, and return to the community. In this report, we examine the characteristics of and post-transition outcomes for MFP participants in 25 states who transitioned to the community...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between Interest Rates Through Credit Channels and Money Supply on Indonesia's Economic Growth. data used in is time series from 2005 2019, sourced Bank Indonesia (BI) Central Statistics Agency (BPS). analytical method Vector Autoregression (VAR) using Eviews version 10.0 computer application program. results show that interest rates hav...

We examine in a Cournot duopoly model the well known view that short-term capital market debt can control managerial moral hazard. We show that short-term debt does not provide this discipline because of management’s manipulation of the information flow to the market. Shareholders may nevertheless prefer short-term debt because it motivates management to be more aggressive in the product market...

A s the nat ion inches toward heal thcare reform, long-term care providers and others who care for the elderly are finding collaboration essential to con t inue serving their constituents. Although these collaborative arrangements may not be as well-integrated or comprehensive as the in tegra ted delivery network model proposed by the Catholic Health Association, they do represent a first s tep...