TY  - JOUR
AU  - Garber,Alan M.
TI  - Long-Term Care, Wealth, and Health of the Disabled Elderly Living in the Community
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2328
PY  - 1987
Y2  - July 1987
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2328
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2328.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alan M. Garber
Provost
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/496-5100
Fax: 617/495-8550
E-Mail: alan_garber@harvard.edu
M1  - published as Alan M. Garber. "Long-Term Care, Wealth, and Health of the Disabled Elderly Living in the Community," in David A. Wise, editor, "The Economics of Aging" University of Chicago Press (1989)

AB  - Providing and financing long-term care of the elderly are among the most challenging policy issues facing the aging American population. This study examines characteristics and selected measures of utilization in the population most likely to use long-term care. It investigates characteristics of a cohort of noninstitutionalized elderly Medicare recipients who were impaired in the performance of at least one basic activity. It describes their wealth, living arrangements, and health characteristics. Tobit regressions are presented that relate utilization of hospital services, paid home-health care, and unreimbursed home care to these factors. I find that the number of activity limitations increases with age, but that in this population, household income and value of home equity do not decrease with either the level of disability or with age. The determinants of home-health care utilization in this population are distinct from the factors that have been significant predictors of medical care utilization in other studies.
ER  -