A Profile of Home and Community-Based Services in Ohio
The report tracks the changes in home care use in the state over the past 30 years.
Ian Matt Nelson • Robert A. Applebaum • Oksana Dikhtyar • John R. Bowblis
Ian Matt Nelson: Reports and Publications
Search for Publications, Reports, and Presentations
A Profile of Nursing Homes in Ohio
This study provides a comprehensive overview of the nursing home industry in Ohio.
Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson • Oksana Dikhtyar • Negar Nik Bakht • John R. Bowblis • MaKenna McClure
The Federal Proposed Standard for Nursing Home Staffing
In response to concerns about direct care staffing challenges in nursing homes across the nation, on September 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new federal rul...
Ian Matt Nelson • John R. Bowblis • Amy E. Elliot • Robert A. Applebaum
Evaluation of Ohio’s MyCare Demonstration
Impact evaluation of Ohio's MyCare Program
Katherine M. Abbott • John R. Bowblis • Robert A. Applebaum • Jennifer Heston-Mullins (Jennifer L. Heston) • Ian Matt Nelson
Exploring the Criterion Validity of Pragmatic Person-Centered Care/Culture Change Measures
This study aims to assess the criterion validity of the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI) Implementation Indicator with other culture change measures.
John R. Bowblis • Reese Moore • Jane Straker • Caroline Madrigal • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Miranda C. Kunkel • Katherine M. Abbott • Ian Matt Nelson
Residential Care: An Emerging Sector of the Ohio System of Long-Term Services
This report utilized data from the Biennial Survey of Long-Term Care Facilities to show the expansive growth of residential care facilities and assisted living in Ohio over the last couple decades.
Jessica Yauk • Meghan Young • Ian Matt Nelson • Robert A. Applebaum • Jane Straker
The Older Adult Population of Greene County Ohio
This report provides a socio-demographic snapshot of the older adult population of Greene County, Ohio
Abigail Helsinger • Ian Matt Nelson
Policy does matter: Changing an unchangeable long-term services system
Because long-term services policy is largely driven by state decisions, this study examines the impact of state-level changes on Ohio's long-term services system.
Jane Straker • Katherine A. Kennedy • Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson
This report provides findings from a study of long-term services and supports utilization trends from 1993 to 2017.
Ian Matt Nelson • John R. Bowblis • Robert A. Applebaum • Jane Straker • A. Katherine Harrington
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have received regulatory attention in relation to their emergency preparedness.
Cassandra L. Hua • Ian Matt Nelson • Katherine A. Kennedy
In 2018, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the ninth biennial Ohio Nursing Home and the second Ohio Residential Care Facility Family Satisfaction Surveys under a contract to the Ohio Departm...
Barbra J. Brottman • Leah M. Janssen • Jane Straker • Meghan Young • Ian Matt Nelson • Sara E. Stemen
Care managing together: A review of the Aetna and Area Agency on Aging MyCare partnership in Ohio
This study was a first step in gaining a better understanding of the care management plan models used in the Ohio MyCare Demonstration, focusing on the Aetna unified care management model implement...
Luyna Ducay • Robert A. Applebaum • Jennifer Heston-Mullins (Jennifer L. Heston) • Ian Matt Nelson
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 AgeWell program trains and employs able older adults to provide companionship to chronically ill older adults in the community.
Paul Flashpohler • Jane Straker • Ian Matt Nelson • Gordan Hannah
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
Typically thought of as a long-term care option for older residents, the proportion of Ohio’s long-stay Medicaid nursing home residents under the age of 65 has tripled over the last 20 years.
This report summarizes the implementation process and results from the 2016 Family Satisfaction Surveys conducted in Ohio nursing homes and residential care facilities.
Ryan Shanley • Jane Straker • Jyotsana Parajuli • Danielle Eynon-Black • Karl Chow • Ian Matt Nelson
Report tracks use long-term services and supports utilization trends from 1993 to 2015.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Robert A. Applebaum • Jane Straker • Ian Matt Nelson
Are Ohio's Nursing Homes Ready for an Emergency?
Study Identifies Strengths, Leads to Strategies for Improvement in Ohio Nursing Home Disaster Planning.
Cassandra L. Hua • Marc Molea • Ian Matt Nelson
This report documents two decades of progress in delivering long-term services in Ohio.
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson • Jane Straker
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
While most daily care and assistance for Ohio’s older population is provided by family and friends, paid direct care workers such as nurses and home care aides provide much of the formal assi...
Emily Fox • Sarah G. Boehle • Ian Matt Nelson • Jane Straker
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
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
Consumer Direction in Ohio: Findings From Two Demonstration Projects
This report provides findings from evaluations of two consumer-directed home care programs.
This report provides information about the elements of case management, intake, and assessment programs that are often specified in current standards or bid specifications.
Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson • Jane Straker • Michael Payne
This report examined the PASSPORT population for nursing home level of care and Medicaid financial eligibility.
Ian Matt Nelson • Shahla Mehdizadeh • Lauren Thieman
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
Case Managers' Perspectives on Consumer Direction
From S.R. Kunkel & V. Wellin (Eds.)(2006). Consumer Voice and Choice in Long-Term Care© Reproduced with permission of Springer Publishing Company, LLC, New York, NY 10036
Assessing the Quality of Caregiver Support Services
The project’s primary objective was to design and test an outcome-focused system for quality monitoring of caregiver-support services based largely on input from caregivers themselves.
Kathryn McGrew • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Shawn Davis • Robert A. Applebaum • Ian Matt Nelson
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
This report describes the evaluation of the Council on Aging Learning Advantages program; a training program for informal caregivers.
Jane Straker • Dawn Carr • Ian Matt Nelson
Profiles of Choices Consumers describes the demographics of consumers who choose to enroll in the Choices program, the utilization of Choices services compared to traditional PASSPORT services, and...
For Love and Money: Paying Family Caregivers
In this paper we discuss the dilemmas, debates, assumptions, and evidence regarding...
Ian Matt Nelson • Robert A. Applebaum • Suzanne R. Kunkel