The Connecticut Model for Financing Long‐term Care: A Limited Partnership?*

Wiener, Joshua M.; Hanley, Raymond J.

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1992.tb04488.x

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“…Evaluation of the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration as well as other prior research has found that the availability of expanded community-based services and case management for AD caregivers did not significantly increase the amount of assistance received from formal providers, nor did it diminish the amount of support provided by informal caregivers. [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] Geographic differences in the utilization of health services, more generally, has been documented in the literature. 36,37 Variation may suggest regional preferences, ethnic or cultural values, or socioeconomic factors.…”

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Variation in cost of informal caregiving and formal-service use for people with Alzheimer's desease

Harrow

Mahoney

Mendelsohn

et al. 2004

Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen

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This study used a geographically diverse sample to estimate the total cost of informal care and formal services for community-residing Alzheimer's disease (AD) care recipients. Baseline data were used for 1200 family caregivers from the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) study, a multisite intervention trial. The replacement-wage-rate approach estimated informal cost. Formal services were assigned a cost based on secondary sources. Annual cost per care recipient amounted to 23,436 dollars for informal care and 8064 dollars for formal services. Variation in informal cost was almost entirely due to instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) assistance. Cross-site differences in cost persisted after controlling for caregiver and care-recipient characteristics. Geographic variation may suggest regional preferences or ethnic/cultural values. Further study is needed to determine whether this reflects differences in access or availability or how including a control group for care recipients with nondementia diagnoses might have affected these findings.

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Variation in cost of informal caregiving and formal-service use for people with Alzheimer's desease

Harrow

Mahoney

Mendelsohn

et al. 2004

Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen

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“…Mark Meiners' energetic defense of the Connecticut Partnership for Long‐Term Care does not convince us that we were mistaken in our original critique 1 . Although Connecticut is to be commended for actually “doing something” to reform the long‐term care financing system, the key observation must be that it is a fairly weak initiative.…”

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Private Long-Term Care Insurance and the Asset Protection Motive

Mellor

2000

The Gerontologist

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This research examined the role of assets in the decision to purchase insurance for long-term care using survey data from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study. Previous research suggests that assets matter, but the size and direction of the effect varies. An important issue regarding the role of assets has not been explored adequately--whether the effect of assets differs between less wealthy and very wealthy individuals. A methodology to control for this type of variation is employed in this analysis. Results suggest that increases in assets have the greatest influence on the probability that less wealthy individuals own long-term care insurance, and have a negligible impact on the wealthy. This has important implications for policies designed to increase long-term care insurance ownership.

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The Connecticut Model for Financing Long‐term Care: A Limited Partnership?*

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Variation in cost of informal caregiving and formal-service use for people with Alzheimer's desease

Variation in cost of informal caregiving and formal-service use for people with Alzheimer's desease

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