The first call for abstracts sought papers that could advance the conceptual underpinnings of three main issues in home and community-based services:




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


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


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


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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