This report explores and contrasts the efforts of eight sites to improve the community-based long-term care system as a whole and the efforts required to improve the quality or availability of specific services to individual seniors.

This paper surveys several aspects of long-term care policy as it relates to the CPOA, describing trends in long-term care legislation in the seven partnership states and discussing whether and how the partnerships have tried to affect policy in their states and communities.

The learning capacity of older adults has direct, practical implications for professionals trying to educate older people and their families about health care services and benefits, especially in Medicare. This issue brief discusses how older people learn and explores research from the field of...

This paper examines how the HITECH Act could be harnessed to help practices implement technology and support key principles of the PCMH.

Mathematica Policy Research has conducted influential work to improve mental health and substance abuse services and policies. We combine our deep knowledge of behavioral health care with our data collection and analytic capabilities to provide a wide array of services.

In October 2012, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in a unique collaboration between public and private health care payers, launched the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative to improve primary care delivery in seven...

Mathematica Policy Research is leading the efforts to develop and test behavioral health quality measures that focus on a range of populations and health care settings and rely on a variety of data sources.