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Peer reviewedKruzich, Jean Marie; Powell, William E. – Health & Social Work, 1995
Surveyed 90 administrative and nonadministrative social workers employed in nursing homes who identified their level of influence in 5 spheres of organizational decision making. There were few differences between the two groups. However, among directors, number of full-time equivalent social workers, type of institution ownership, and length of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Health Services, Higher Education
Monroe, Margaret E. – 1978
This is both a descriptive study of the physical and social climate of nursing homes for the use of print and other media, and a study of public library service to older adults and to residents of nursing homes in Wisconsin. It includes a detailed description of public library service to older adults and nursing home residents to provide a basis…
Descriptors: Facilities, Library Services, Library Surveys, Nursing Homes
Peer reviewedArling, Greg; And Others – Gerontologist, 1991
Examined Medicaid spenddown among nursing home residents from 72 Wisconsin facilities. Found only small proportion of discharges had spent down to Medicaid eligibility, but this group's long stays contributed heavily to nursing home days. Estimated over 40 percent of those who spent down did so within six months, 58 percent within a year, and 76…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Eligibility, Financial Support, Health Care Costs
Wisconsin State Dept. of Health and Social Services, Madison. – 1983
This document contains a preliminary report on the implementation of Wisconsin's Community Options Program (COP), a program designed both to divert persons from entering nursing homes and to deinstitutionalize current nursing home residents who can be effectively served by community-based alternatives. The introduction of this report provides a…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Delivery Systems
Wisconsin State Dept. of Health and Social Services, Madison. – 1984
This document is a report evaluating the Community Options Program (COP) operated in Wisconsin in 1982 and 1983. The report states that the program is designed to reduce the institutionalization of disabled persons by supporting these persons in the community, thereby decreasing expenditures for long term support and slowing the demand for nursing…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Cost Effectiveness, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Download full textWisconsin State Board of Health, Madison. – 1968
Between November 1964 and June 1967, 85 women and five men completed a 4-month course held in several Wisconsin locations to prepare them as Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants to (1) plan and direct a general activity or supportive program of occupational therapy, (2) train individual patients in independent performance of activities of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, Certification, Clinical Experience
