More than half of all nursing facility residents are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, enmeshing them in a system of care and coverage that is complex, fragmented, uncoordinated, and inefficient. This policy brief suggests that coordination of care for these dual eligibles could be...

A number of data sets can be used to estimate the size of the nursing home population with mental illness; however, estimates vary because of differences in data collection. The 2004 National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS) estimates that 6.8 percent of nursing home residents had a primary diagnosis...