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 AcademyHealth,
the national program office of HCFO, released three issue
briefs detailing how research has improved long-term care service
delivery and policy in the past, and how it might continue to do
so in the future.
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Long-Term
Care: Collaborating for Solutions
profiles successful collaborations between providers, policymakers,
and researchers to improve service delivery, policymaking, and
research related to long-term care, and discusses their benefits
and challenges.
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Long-Term
Care: Informed by Research
highlights areas in which publicly and privately
funded research has informed long-term care service delivery and
policy.
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Long-Term
Care: Confronting Today’s Challenges
identifies challenges for long-term care policy
and service delivery (e.g., workforce shortages, integration of
care), which can be ameliorated, in part, by information provided
by health services research.
On
June 18, AcademyHealth also held a press briefing on this issue.
The briefing featured a recently published paper1
by Penny Feldman and Robert Kane and a soon to be published paper2
by Peter Kemper, also making the case for building evidence in long-term
care. A web cast of the event is available at kaisernetwork.org.
1
Feldman,
P.K. and R.L. Kane. “Strengthening Research to Improve the
Practice and Management
of
Long-Term Care,” Milbank Quarterly, June 2003, Vol.
81, No. 2, pp. 179-220.
2
Kemper, P. “Long-Term Care Research and Policy,” The
Gerontologist, August 2003, forthcoming.
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