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The first call for abstracts sought papers that could advance
the conceptual underpinnings of three main issues in home and community-based
services:
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Goals
A Normative Analysis of Home Care Goals
A. E. Benjamin, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Goals of Home Care: Therapeutic, Compensatory, Either, or Both?
Rosalie E. Kane, DSW, Division of Health Services Research & Policy,
School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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Efficiency
Efficiency of Home Care: Notes for an Economic
Approach to Resource Allocation
Christine E. Bishop, Ph.D., Brandeis University
Examining the Efficiency of Home Care
Robert L. Kane, M.D., School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
The Family as Provider of Long-Term Care:
Efficiency, Equity, and Externalities
Douglas A. Wolf, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University
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Public/Private Responsibilities
Homecare Benefits for Persons with Disabilities
Walter Leutz, Ph. D., Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University
Home Sweet Hospital: The Nature and Limits of
Private Responsibilities for Home Health Care
Carol Levine, M.A., United Hospital Fund, New York
The Family Role in the Context of Long-Term Care
Rhonda J. V. Montgomery, Ph.D., Gerontology Center, University of
Kansas
Public and Private Responsibilities: Home- and Community-Based
Services in the United Kingdom and Germany
Joshua M. Wiener, Ph.D., and Alison Evans Cuellar, Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute
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Eight of the completed first-round papers, and an overview by Program
Director Penny Hollander Feldman, were published as a special issue
of the Journal of Aging and Health, entitled Goals, Responsibilities,
and Effectiveness: Advancing the Conceptual Underpinnings of Home-based
Services (Volume 11, Number 3, August 1999). Another commissioned
paper, Homecare Benefits for Persons with Disabilities, by Walter
Leutz, was published in American Rehabilitation (1998, vol. 24, no. 3)
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