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American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 82, Issue 6 853-856, Copyright © 1992 by American Public Health Association

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Eligibility for publicly financed home care.

M E Jackson, B Burwell, R F Clark and M Harahan

SysteMetrics, Lexington, MA 02173.

OBJECTIVES. Proposals for publicly financed home care for the elderly now tend to include cognitive impairment criteria as well as activities of daily living (ADL) criteria. The numbers of elderly deemed eligible for services will depend on the definitions of ADL and cognitive impairment used. METHODS. Data from the 1984 National Long-Term Care Survey were used to generate a series of estimates of the community-dwelling elderly with ADL disabilities and cognitive impairment. RESULTS. When only ADL criteria are used, estimates of disability range from 472,000 to over 3 million (1.6% to 12.5% of the community-dwelling elderly). These estimates increase to approximately 1 million to 4.2 million (3.5% to 14.0% of the community-dwelling elderly) when cognitive impairment criteria are added. CONCLUSIONS. The use of more stringent or more liberal eligibility criteria will have dramatic effects on the number of elders who qualify for services. The nature of the eligibility criteria employed in any expansion of federally financed home care benefits will be a major factor in determining the costs of such a program.




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