Services

• Review and summarize existing research.
• Review consumer-directed long-term care programs in Florida, other states and countries.
• Review managed long-term care programs in Florida and other states.
• Survey assisted living facilities and nursing homes.Survey home care consumers.
• Survey and focus group research with elders and families about long-term care needs.
• Survey and focus group research with elders and families about preferences for long-term care.

Affordable Assisted Living Facilities: Government Sponsored Benefits for Reimbursing Assisted Living Services, Room, and Board, April 2003.

Caregiving at Life's End: The National Needs Assessment and Implications for Hospice Practice, June 2003.

Consumer-Directed Care: An Ethical, Empirical, and Practical Guide for State Policymakers, June 2001.

Evaluating Your Assisted Living Facility Options, 2000.

Florida Assisted Living Choices Worksheet,2003.

Florida Assisted Living Research Study.

Hillsborough County Aging Services Master Plan 2008-2030 Recommendations.

Nurse aide turnover: Research, policy and practice.  Tampa, FL: Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging.

Planning for Older Americans Act Funding to Support Family Caregivers, Area Agency on Aging for Pasco and Pinellas Counties, 2001.

Planning for Older Americans Act Funding to Support Family Caregivers, West Central Area Agency on Aging, 2001.

Preliminary Evaluation of Medicaid Waiver Managed Long-Term Care Diversion Programs, 2001.

Borrayo, E. A., Salmon, J.R., Polivka, L., & Dunlop, B. (2002). Utilization across the continuum of long-term care services. The Gerontologist, 42, 603-612.

Borrayo, E., Salmon, J.R., Polivka, L. & Dunlop, B. (2004). Who is being served? Program eligibility and home and community-based services utilization. Journal of Applied Gerontology 23, 120-140.

Hedgecock, D. K., Oakley, M. L., Johnson, C. E., Salmon, J. R., Polivka, L., & Hyer, K. (2003, November). Nature and extent of nursing facility lawsuits. Long-Term Care Interface, 17-21.

Johnson, C.E., Hedgecock, D.K., Oakley, M.L., Dobalian, A., Salmon, J.R., Hyer, K., et al. (2004). Predictors of lawsuit activity against nursing homes in Hillsborough County, Florida. Health Care Management Review 29, 1-9.

Mitchell, G., Salmon, J.R., Polivka, L.,& Soberon-Ferrer, H. (2006). The relative benefits and cost of Medicaid home and community based services in Florida. The Gerontologist 46, 483-494.

Polivka, L., Salmon, J.R., Hyer, K., Johnson, C., & Hedgecock, D. (2003). The nursing home problem in Florida. The Gerontologist 43 (Special Issue II), 7-18.

Salmon, J.R., Crews, C., Reynolds-Scanlon, S., Jang, Y., Weber, S.M. & Oakely, M.L. (1999). Nurse aide turnover: Research, policy and practice.  Tampa, FL: Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging.