Background Home care plays a vital role in many health care systems, but there is evidence
that appropriate targeting strategies must be used to allocate limited home care resources …

This article examines what is known and what we need to know about rural long‐term care
populations and the formal and informal service systems that support their long‐term care …

Context: The more limited availability and use of community‐based long‐term care services
in rural areas may be a factor in higher rates of nursing home use among rural residents …

Process mapping is a qualitative tool that allows service providers, policy makers,
researchers, and other concerned stakeholders to get a “bird's eye view” of a home health …

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine what client, needs assessor, and
agency factors explain variation in decision making by long-term care needs assessors …

Purpose: To determine what client factors predict allocation of an electric scooter and to
determine what needs assessor and agency factors explain variation in decision-making by …

The purpose of this correlational study was to determine how informal caregivers of older
adults in rural Maine rated their quality of care on the Provide and Respect scales of the …

The Tennessee OPTIONS program was designed to provide older and disabled adults with
home and community based services. Because the OPTIONS program is new, little is known …

This report discusses issues of validity and reliability that arose when activity of daily living
(ADL) items from Residential Assessment Instrument (RAI) were used by case managers in …