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Locally Funded Services for the Older Population: A Description of Senior-Service Property-Tax Levies in Ohio
(2012-03-13)This report provides findings from a survey of Ohio's counties operating senior-service property-tax levies. Results cover services, expenditures, clients served, eligibility, election strategies and more. Where possible, ... -
Training Case Managers to Administer the Service Adequacy and Satisfaction Instrument (SASI)
(2012-03-13)This manual provides training for case managers to conduct satisfaction interviews using the Service Adequacy and Satisfaction Instrument. The SASI examines consumer satisfaction with homemaker, personal care, and ... -
Ohio Long-Term Services and Supports Factbook
(2012-03-12)This factbook provides a broad overview of Ohio's system of long-term Services and supports. Numerous charts provide descriptions of those who use services, kinds of services, payment systems and other topics. It is ... -
Criminal Offenders in Ohio Nursing Homes: Facility Practices, Prevalance and Problems
(2012-03-12)This brief report presents findings from the 2009 Ohio Biennial Survey of Nursing Facilities. Respondents answered a brief series of questions about practices related to prospective residents with criminal backgrounds and ... -
Ohio CCRCs in the Economic Downturn
(2011-11-11)This report examines how the economic downturn affected consumer opinions about choosing a CCRC and how the CCRCs in Ohio made adjustments in response to declining numbers of prospective residents. One hundred-sixty five ... -
Coming of Age: Tracking the Progress and Challenges of Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports in Ohio
(2011-08-11)In a 16 year tracking of utilization trends for institutional and home and community-based services, we learned that Ohio has made considerable change in its approach to delivering and funding long-term care services. The ... -
Right Place, Right Time, Right Care: An Evaluation of Ohio's Nursing Home Diversion and Transition Initiative
(2011-08-11)In 2010 the Ohio General Assembly asked the Ohio Department of Aging to develop and implement a nursing home diversion and transition initiative. This report describes the evaluation of that initiative. Results showed ... -
Right Place, Right Time, Right Care: An Evaluation of Ohio's Nursing Home Diversion and Transition Initiative--Research Brief
(2011-08-11)In 2010 the Ohio General Assembly asked the Ohio Department of Aging to develop and implement a nursing home diversion and transition initiative. This research brief summarizes the results from an evaluation of that ... -
Coming of Age: Tracking the Progress and Challenges of Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports in Ohio
(2011-06-20)16 years of tracking utilization trends for institutional and home-based services and supports shows that Ohio has made considerable changes i its approach to delivering long-term services and supports. For example, in ... -
GenerAges : Generations as They Age
(2011-05-10)GenerAges examines the history and culture of the 20th century that shaped the lives of Americans age 65 and older today, with a special focus on the generations coming of age in the 1920s (centenarians), ‘40s (the Greatest ... -
Implementation of the 2010 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey : Final Report
(2011-05-10)In 2010, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the fifth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. This year the survey had the largest number of family ... -
Implementation of the 2010 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey : Research Brief
(2011-05-10)In 2010, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the fifth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey. The year the survey had the largest number of family responses ever, with 97% of facilities participating ... -
Ohio's Aging Network Efforts to Enhance Nursing Home Diversion and Transition
(2011-05-10)This brief report provides preliminary results from an evaluation of Ohio's diversion and transition demonstration program. -
Preparing the Aging Network for Choice for Independence : Title VI Survey Results
(2010-09-22)With a grant from the Administration on Aging, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging(n4a) partnered with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduet the 2007 Aging Network Survey of Title VI Native American ... -
Title VI Survey Results [2009]
(2010-09-22)This report provides results from a national survey of the 243 Title VI Native American programs. The survey was designed to access the role of Title VI program in offering services and supports to the elders in their ... -
AAA Caregiving Survey Results
(2010-09-22)AAA Caregiving Survey Results summarizes the results of a mini survey of the nations 629 Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) on the support they provide to family caregivers. Over 57% of AAAs responded to the survey and the results ... -
Nurising Home Use in Ohio: Who Stays, Who Pays?
(2010-06-11)This research brief follows a cohort of nursing home residents over a three-year period-- beginning with their first ever admission to a nursing home --in order to determine their stay patterns and changes in their payment ... -
Enriching Now with Then: Connecting Nursing Home Residents and Staff Through Oral History
(2010-03-09)This research presents and discusses findings on how increased staff knowledge of an Ohio nursing homes residents' past improved communication and relations between resident and staff and, also, boosted job performance ... -
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging AAA Workforce Survey
(2010-03-05)The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) contracted with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduct a brief survey. The goals were to describe the capacity of the current AAA workforce and the workforce ...