It is not your parents' long-term services system: Nursing homes in a changing world
The article argues that administrative and regulatory practices have not kept pace with the dramatic changes in how nursing homes are now being used in the long-term services system.
Robert A. Applebaum • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Diane Berish
This study compared Dr. Sidney Katz's original dichotomous measure of dependence in performing activities of daily living (ADL) with the National Health and Aging Trends Study's (NHATS) b...
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Stephen Frochen
This project was designed to evaluate the implementation and impact of Enhanced Service Coordination (ESC) in affordable housing for older adults and people with disabilities.
Ian Matt Nelson • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Kate de Medeiros • Cassandra L. Hua • Suzanne R. Kunkel
The impact of state nursing home bed relocation policy in Ohio
As Ohio's population aged and shifted across county lines, an imbalance in the supply of nursing home beds to 65+ population has occurred.
Ian Matt Nelson • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Cassandra L. Hua • Philip E. Sauer
Report tracks use long-term services and supports utilization trends from 1993 to 2015.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Robert A. Applebaum • Jane Straker • Ian Matt Nelson
Unpaid Caregivers: Growing Demand and Limited Supply
Several recent studies indicate that the supply of informal caregivers is declining and this change in potential support could have major policy implications.
Shahla Mehdizadeh
Ohio faces a demographic and financing challenge as its population ages in the next 20 years.
Shahla Mehdizadeh
This report documents two decades of progress in delivering long-term services in Ohio.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson • Jane Straker
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Anthony R. Bardo • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Jane Straker • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Karl Chow • Wenxuan Huang
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Jane Straker • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Anthony R. Bardo • Wenxuan Huang • Karl Chow • Shahla Mehdizadeh
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Anthony R. Bardo • Jane Straker • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Karl Chow • Wenxuan Huang
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Karl Chow • Anthony R. Bardo • Wenxuan Huang
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Jane Straker • Karl Chow • Wenxuan Huang • Anthony R. Bardo • Suzanne R. Kunkel
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker • Wenxuan Huang • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Karl Chow • Anthony R. Bardo
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Anthony R. Bardo • Karl Chow • Wenxuan Huang • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker • Shahla Mehdizadeh
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Karl Chow • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Jane Straker • Wenxuan Huang • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Anthony R. Bardo
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Suzanne R. Kunkel • Anthony R. Bardo • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Karl Chow • Wenxuan Huang • Jane Straker
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Karl Chow • Anthony R. Bardo • Wenxuan Huang • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Jane Straker • Anthony R. Bardo • Wenxuan Huang • Karl Chow • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Suzanne R. Kunkel
The reports below include population data, tables, and charts for the state of Ohio, the combined AAA, and individual listed counties.
Anthony R. Bardo • Karl Chow • Wenxuan Huang • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker • Shahla Mehdizadeh
This longitudinal study, initiated by the General Assembly in 1993 and continuously funded by the Ohio Department of Aging, tracks how long-term utilization has changed over the past two decades in...
Jane Straker • Ian Matt Nelson • Malinda Deacon • Robert A. Applebaum • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Delivering Long-Term Services to Ohio Elders: Good Progress, But Challenges Await
The study describes the changes in Ohio's approach to delivering long-term care services that have occurred from 1993 to 2011.
Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Evaluation of Ohio's Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
In 2011, the Ohio Legislature asked the Scripps Gerontology Center to evaluate Ohio's two PACE sites and make recommendations for further expansion.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Robert A. Applebaum • Patricia Faust
Population Pyramids of Ohio by County 2010-2050
To download individual county population pyramids (2010-2050) click the link below.
Parnnachat Tipsuk • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Takashi Yamashita
Providing Data to Improve Ohio's Long-Term Services and Supports System (First three indicators)
This project tracks Ohio’s progress toward a more balanced system of long-term care services and support. The study, funded by the Ohio Department of Job and family Services, began in 2010 an...
Robert A. Applebaum • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Aging in Ohio: Population Age 65+ 2000 and 2010 by County
A poster-size table displaying changes in the number and proportion of Ohio's age 65+ population by age group and gender for each of Ohio's 88 counties.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Takashi Yamashita
In a 16 year tracking of utilization trends for institutional and home and community-based services, we learned that Ohio has made considerable change in its approach to delivering and funding long...
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Ian Matt Nelson • Robert A. Applebaum • Jane Straker
A Review of Ohio's Nursing Home Certificate of Need Program: Implications for Practice and Policy
One of the critical questions states like Ohio face as they plan for an aging population involves estimates about the optimum number of nursing homes that will be needed in the future.
Robert A. Applebaum • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Takashi Yamashita
Nursing Home Use in Ohio: Who Stays, Who Pays?
This research brief follows a cohort of nursing home residents over a three-year period-- beginning with their first ever admission to a nursing home --in order to determine their stay patterns and...
Robert A. Applebaum • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Ian Matt Nelson
Disability in Ohio: Managing The Projected Need for Long-Term Services and Supports
This report examines Ohio's projected long-term care needs and its implications for the state budget.
Shahla Mehdizadeh
These reports project the potential needs for long-term care services and supports in the two regions of the state of Ohio where the two Programs for All-inclusive Care for theElderly(PACE) operate.
Anthony R. Bardo • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Providing Long-Term Services and Supports to an Aging Ohio: Progress and Challenges
This report details trends in Ohio long-term care service utilization over 14 years.
Malinda Deacon • Robert A. Applebaum • Jane Straker • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Disability in Ohio: Long-Term Care Providers and Programs
This report describes the range of options used in Ohio’s long-term care system.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Denise Brothers-McPhail
Ohio's Aging Workforce: Opportunities and Challenges for Ohio's Employers
This report focuses on anticipated age-related changes in Ohio's workforce and the effect those changes might have on employers, employees, and society.
Lydia Manning • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Disability in Ohio: Current and Future Demand for Services
In an effort to project the size of Ohio’s Medicaid long-term care expenditures between now and the year 2020, this report first projected the size of the population with severe physical and/...
Shahla Mehdizadeh
This report examined the PASSPORT population for nursing home level of care and Medicaid financial eligibility.
Ian Matt Nelson • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Lauren Thieman
Program Evaluation of PASSPORT: Ohio's Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver
The goal for the evaluation of the PASSPORT program was to determine whether the program is providing efficient and cost-neutral services as an alternative to facility-based long-term care, and to ...
Jane Straker • Kathryn McGrew • Valerie Wellin • Shahla Mehdizadeh • William Ciferri • Suzanne R. Kunkel
This report explores the costs of caring for a person age 60 and older in the community (through PASSPORT) versus caring for a person age 60 and older in a nursing home.
Shahla Mehdizadeh
The Changing Face of Long-Term Care: Ohio's Experience 1993-2005
This report details trends in Ohio long-term care service utilization over 12 years.
Jane Straker • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Ian Matt Nelson • Hallie Baker • Robert A. Applebaum
Nursing home use in Ohio: Who stays, who pays?
This research brief follows a cohort of nursing home residents over a three-year period-- beginning with their first ever admission to a nursing home --in order to determine their stay patterns and...
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Ian Matt Nelson • Robert A. Applebaum
An overview of Ohio's In-Home Service Program for Older People (PASSPORT)
This research presents an overview of Ohio's Medicaid waiver program, known as PASSPORT, which serves Ohioans who are 60 years and older, who are chronically disabled, and who meet the eligibi...
Robert A. Applebaum • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Long-term care utilization in Ohio 1993-2003
This research brief examines trends in nursing home care and home care use between the years 1993 and 2003.
Jane Straker • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Robert A. Applebaum
Real choices: A caregiver respite strategy for the state of Ohio
The purpose of Real Choices: A Caregiver Respite Strategy For The State of Ohio was to determine the feasibility of restructuring the PASSPORT program to achieve caregiver respite.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Kathryn McGrew • William Ciferri
A review of nursing home resident characteristics in Ohio: Tracking changes from 1994-2004
This briefing paper presents the profile of Ohio nursing home residents in both 2004 and 1994, and describes trends over the past decade.
Robert A. Applebaum • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Profile and Projections of Ohio's 60+ Population: A State Study
During the next 20 years, the national population, as well as the population in Ohio, will grow older.
P. Neal Ritchey • William Ciferri • Valerie Wellin • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Sarah Poff Roman
Profiles and Projections of Ohio's 60+ Population: County-by-County
The purpose of these reports is to present the unique profile of the older population (60+) in each of Ohio's 88 counties and to project the number of older people and the prevalence of disabi...
Shahla Mehdizadeh
