Comparison of Resource Utilization for Medicaid Dementia Patients Using Nursing Homes Versus Home and Community Based Waivers for Long-Term Care

Authors

Laura P. Sands, Center for Health Outcomes Research and Policy (CHORP), Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Huiping Xu, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Michael Weiner, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Bloomington, IN; Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Marc B. Rosenman, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Bloomington, IN; Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Bruce A. Craig, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Joseph Thomas III, Center for Health Outcomes Research and Policy (CHORP), Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Abstract

Medicaid waiver home and community-based long-term care services (HCBS) may provide a partial solution to the escalating costs of long-term care. Persons with dementia can have complex caregiving needs; it is unknown whether their expenditures and resource utilization differ between community-based versus institutional settings.

Keywords

long-term care, dementia, Medicaid

Date of this Version

April 2008