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...

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...

Communicating complex health-care and long-term care information clearly, quickly and in ways your clients can truly understand is a major challenge for aging-services providers. This brief focuses on oral communication, discussing why Medicare and other health-care information is so hard to talk about and offering tips you can use to help improve your communication with clients.

This opinion paper reviews three hypotheses relating to the possible molecular events involved in the formation of long-term memories that go beyond the classical theory, which is confined to strengthening Hebbian synapses. The aim of this paper is not to write detailed critiques of these three hypotheses but to present, for the first time in one location, their essential components to engage t...

Every long-term care administrator needs to be thoroughly informed on all aspects of the Act and must update policy procedures to guarantee compliance. The potential penalties here are horrendous.

The financing of long-term care for older people is a topical issue, especially in view of demographic trends. A number of key questions arise. How many older people are likely to require long-term care services in thirty or forty years’ time? How much are these services likely to cost? Will the cost to public funds prove affordable? Who should pay? How should costs be divided between public ex...