- Title
- Long-term care eligibility criteria for People with Alzheimer s disease
- First Author
- Fox, Patrick
- Date of Pub
- 1999 Summer
- Pages
- 67-85
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Other Authors
- Maslow, Katie; Zhang, Xiulan
- Abstract
- Long-term care (LTC) eligibility criteria are applied to a sample of 8,437 people with dementia enrolled in the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. The authors find that mental-status-test cutoff points substantially affect the pool of potential beneficiaries. Functional criteria alone leave out people with relatively severe dementia and with behavioral problems. It is therefore important to consider both behavioral and mental-status-test criteria in establishing eligibility for community-based services for people with dementia.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Alzheimer Disease : Program Evaluation : Aged : Community Health Services : Long-Term Care : Medicare : Support, U.S. Gov't, non-P.H.S. : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB2000-102444
