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Our Grandparents, Our Parents, Our Future Selves: Optimizing Function in Old Age. Syracuse Seminar Series on Aging.

Gill, Thomas M. - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2010

Most of my research at Yale University School of Medicine over the past several years has focused on identifying older adults at risk of functional decline and disability, identifying events that may precipitate the transition from functional independence to disability, and developing strategies...

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Intergenerational Labor Market and Welfare Consequences of Poor Health

Kniesner, Thomas J.; LoSasso, Anthony T. - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2001

’s labor supplied. The time allocation of adult sons is unaffected by a parent’s frail health. Adult daughters who visit a …

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Palliative Care: A Novel Solution to the Healthcare Crisis. Syracuse Seminar Series on Aging.

Morrison, R. Sean - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2010

Palliative care is specialized healthcare for anyone who is diagnosed with a serious and life-threatening illness, starting when they get the diagnosis, regardless of the prognosis. Although hospice is a form of palliative care, most palliative care is not end-of-life care or hospice, a common...

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The Changing Economic Circumstances of the Elderly: Income, Wealth, and Social Security

Smith, James P. - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 1997

How is the economic status of the elderly changing and what are their prospects for the future? My portrait tells us how well off they are on average, but also about the vast disparities that exist among them. This description includes an often neglected measure of their economic well-being--the...

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Social Security Reform: A Budget Neutral Approach to Reducing Older Women's Disproportional Risk of Poverty

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M. - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 1994

the Social Security program to transform the basis for its payout rules from a "traditional" one-earner family model to a …

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Changing Economic Incentives in Long-Term Care

Konetzka, R. Tamara - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2006

Just as managed care has changed utilization and incentives in other parts of health care, there is a whole set of … hospitalize people with certain health conditions, then in the long run they are not going to develop the programs and invest in … quality. Health care sectors in which spending is rising particularly rapidly or in which access seems to be problematic may …

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Duration Data from the National Long-Term Care Survey: Foundation for a Dynamic Multiple-Indicator Model of ADL Dependency

Laditka, James N.; Wolf, Douglas A. - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2004

This report describes preparation of data from the National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS) fur use in a dynamic multiple-indicator model of dependency in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). The data set descrdibed makes use of all functional status information available across four NLTCS waves for...

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Social Interaction and the Health Insurance Choices of the Elderly

Beiseitov, Eldar; Kubik, Jeffrey D.; Moran, John R. - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2004

Using data from the 1998 wave of the Health and Retirement Study, we examine the effect of social interactions on the … health insurance choices of the elderly. We find that having more social interactions, as measured by contacts with friends … the health insurance choices of the elderly and provide suggestive evidence that "word-of-mouth" information sharing may …

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Generational Conflict, Human Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Lovely, Mary E.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2000

Worldwide, dependency ratios are forecast to increase dramatically in the next 50 years. A great deal of attention has been devoted to understanding the changes in fiscal policies that "must" take place to accommodate these changes. In contrast, less effort has been concentrated on studying the...

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Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts

Moran, John R.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2004

health implications of changes in transfer payments to the elderly and for evaluating the benefits of the recently enacted …

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