This consumer education document is intended to provide a complete description of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for hospitals from the consumer's point of view and to provide basic information on how consumers can protect their rights to appropriate hospital care under Medicare. The first section describes the PPS and also explains…

Addresses a number of ethical and methodological issues related to research involving vulnerable populations such as the frail elderly, when the research design calls for a control or nonintervention group. Techniques are presented for building a "limited" service component into the research design. (Author)

Proposes that social workers have specialized, skilled roles in the home health care system and that future legislative and reimbursement patterns must reflect these skills. Concludes social workers can work autonomously within an interdisciplinary framework, with other members of the home-care team. (RC)

This book is offered as a guide for persons interested in beginning a project where young people volunteer to work with the frail, homebound elderly. The guide presents examples of successful intergenerational projects, the lessons learned from those projects, the elements needed for a successful project, and a step-by-step approach for initiating…

This manual for professionals who offer, or are interested in offering, educational programs for family caregivers identifies obstacles to offering such programs and describes effective practices for dealing with these obstacles. The document's emphasis is on the process of providing educational programming, and not the content of the programming.…

This training manual is designed to increase the interviewing, counseling, and placement skills of counselors in public agencies who work with older clients seeking employment. Information concerning the needs and concerns of older people is included, focusing on training to enhance individual and group counseling skills as well as structured…

This guide focuses on creating educational and social service programs for seniors at Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) properties. Chapter 1 describes an intergenerational program at three properties receiving HUD assistance in Portland, Oregon, where seniors teach and learn from young students through interactive educational…