Long-term care eligibility criteria for people with Alzheimer's disease.
Long-term care (LTC) eligibility criteria are applied to a sample of 8,437 people with dementia enrolled in the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. The authors find that mental-status-test cutoff points substantially affect the pool of potential beneficiaries. Functional criteria alone leave out people with relatively severe dementia and with behavioral problems. It is therefore important to consider both behavioral and mental-status-test criteria in establishing eligibility for community-based services for people with dementia.
Fox
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University of California, San Francisco, USA. pf1965@itsa.ucsf.edu
Maslow
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Zhang
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000145:classification; D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics* / Q000451:nursing; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000592:standards*; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011581:Psychological Tests; D014481:United States