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Instrumental activities of daily living and eligibility for long term home health care

American Journal of Alzheimer's Care and Related Disorders & Research, 1993
Federal eligibility criteria for non-institutionalized long term care stipulates that older persons must require human help with two personal activities of daily living (ADL) before they qualify for services. Therefore, physically healthy cognitively impaired persons may be discriminated against. The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast a
Dorothy Calvani, Brian Lawlor
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Using Evidence-Based Instruments to Document Eligibility and Improve Quality of Life of Hospice Patients

Home Health Care Management & Practice, 2009
Hospices have been implementing various approaches to cope with the increased regulatory scrutiny in the past 3 years, prompted by concern about costs and outcomes. Medicare, through its fiscal intermediaries, has issued increasingly more restrictive local coverage determination guidelines for initial and ongoing qualifying criteria.
Susan Havens Lang   +3 more
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The Compatibility Between State Eligibility Criteria for Developmental Delays and Available Early Childhood Assessment Instrumentation

Diagnostique, 1993
The purpose of this study was to survey the 50 state consultants in early childhood special education in the U.S. to evaluate whether they perceived available developmental assessment instrumentation to be satisfactory for the identification of children with developmental delays in the 3- through 5-year-old age range.
Robert G. Harrington, Jane Tongier
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Social Assistance Needs of Children with Chronic Health Conditions: A Comparative Study of International and South African Eligibility Assessment Instruments

Social Work in Public Health, 2011
The efficacy of the current instrument to assess the social assistance needs of children with chronic health conditions in South Africa is questioned. To develop an improved assessment instrument for South African use, this instrument was pitted against two international social assistance assessment instruments, the United Kingdom (UK) Disability ...
Lizette, Berry, Andre de V, Smit
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