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| The impact of a decade of policy on home health care utilization | | Author(s) | Diana J Torrez, Carroll Estes, Karen Linkens |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 16, no 4, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 35-56 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Needs [elderly] ; Usage [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Medicare home health care eligibility changes, which occurred during the 1980s, were designed to make home health care more accessible to older adults. Ideally, by the 1990s, older people in need of home health care services should no longer have encountered barriers to accessing this benefit. Therefore, an individual's need for home health care services should have been the primary determinant of service utilisation. This study examined whether need was predictive of home care use. Client-level data on the case-mix of home health care agencies in San Francisco and Philadelphia, as well as agency administrator interview data, were analysed to determine which characteristics were the best predictors of home health care use. The regression analyses results revealed that, although client characteristics were important predictors of the amount and type of home health care services received during an episode of care, client characteristics alone did not adequately predict the amount and type of home health care services received by older adults. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980827229 A |
| Classmark | N3: IK: QLD: 7T |
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