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...

Background: Economic theory strongly suggests that better information about the quality of care affects patients’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on provider’s choice in Germany. Problem: In Germany, we...

This paper analyzes the effect of assigning homework on student achievement using data from 16 OECD countries that participated in TIMSS 2007. The model exploits withinstudent variation in homework across subjects in a sample of primary school students who have the same teacher in two related...

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

Between March and August 2005 Niger was hit by a doubling of millet prices and a sharp rise in the number of severely malnourished children admitted to feeding centres. The extent and causes of such crisis remain controversial. The paper reviews the evidence in this regard in the light of the...

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.