Meeting the need for personal care among the elderly: does Medicaid home care spending matter?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether Medicaid home care spending reduces the proportion of the disabled elderly population who do not get help with personal care.

Data sources

Data on Medicaid home care spending per poor elderly person in each state is merged with data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey for 1992, 1996, and 2000. The sample (n=6,067) includes elderly persons living in the community who have at least one limitation in activities of daily living (ADLs).

Study design

Using a repeated cross-section analysis, the probability of not getting help with an ADL is estimated as a function of Medicaid home care spending, individual income, interactions between income and spending, and a set of individual characteristics. Because Medicaid home care spending is

SUBMITTER: Kemper P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2323131 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature