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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 ... -
Common Sense for Caring Organizations: Results from a Study of High-Performing Home Care Agencies and Nursing Homes
(2013-03-27)This study reports on results of a qualitative study of 21 high-performing Ohio nursing homes and home care agencies. The study focused on best practices for managing their direct care workforce to achieve high performance. ... -
Common Sense for Caring Organizations: Results from a Study of High-Performing Home Care Agencies and Nursing Homes--Research Brief
(2013-03-27)This research brief provides highlights from the full report on a study of high-performing home care agencies and nursing homes. -
Consumer Direction in Ohio : Findings From Two Demonstration Projects
(2009-04-20)This report provides findings from evaluations of two consumer-directed home care programs in Ohio. Results suggest consumer direction provides a good alternative to agency-managed home care services. -
Consumer-directed home services : issues and models
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The costs of triple jeopardy : aging, developmental disabilities, and Ohio's impending care shift
(2003-03-01)State policy makers and legislators are paying attention to issues related to the aging of Ohio s population, namely, the impact of increasing longevity on the current older cohort, and the coming swell in the older ... -
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 ... -
Crossing the digital divide : family caregivers' acceptance of technology
(2002-10-01)The purpose of this pilot project was to collect data on how electronic technology might be used to assist family members who are caring for a relative with dementia at home. In Phase 1, we conducted five focus groups with ... -
Delivering Long-Term Services to Ohio Elders: Good Progress, but Challenges Await
(2013-05-07)This study describes the changes in Ohio's approach to delivering long-term services that have occurred in the last 20 years. -
Describing and Assessing Leadership for Person-Centered Care: Final Project Report
(2015-01-22)This report provides brief highlights from a study of leadership in nursing homes with a person-centered or traditional approach to care. -
Developing Specifications for the Competitive Bidding of Intake, Assessment & Case Management Services
(2008-04-02)This report provides information about the elements of case management, intake, and assessment programs that are often specified in current standards or bid specifications. Observation of current practices, a literature ... -
Disability in Ohio : Managing the Projected Need for Long-Term Services and Supports
(2010-03-09)This report examines Ohio's projected long-term care needs and their implications for the state budget. In an effort to contain Medicaid long-term care expenditures, several ways that demand for services and supports could ... -
Disability in Ohio : Current and Future Demand for Services
(2008-05-19)In an effort to project the size of Ohio s Medicaid long-term care expenditures between now and the year 2020, this report first projected the size of the population with severe physical and/or cognitive, intellectual ... -
Disability in Ohio : Long-Term Care Providers & Programs
(2009-02-25)This report describes the range of options used in the long-term care system in Ohio. For each provider or program, we report the eligibility requirements, consumer characteristics, capacity, utilization rate, average ... -
The economics of long-term care in Ohio
(1992-11-01)In 1990, the State of Ohio spent more than $1 billion to finance long-term care services to older Ohioans, and as a result, the Medicaid budget is seen as perhaps the greatest challenge facing state policy makers. But ... -
Educating caregivers about caregiving : an evaluation of the Council on Aging Learning Advantages Program for Informal Caregivers
(2005-06-01)This report describes the evaluation of the Council on Aging Learning Advantages program; a training program for informal caregivers. Nurse trainers conducted individualized training tailored to fit the circumstances of ...