Final Report on the National Long Term Care Resource Centers: Heartland Center onAging, Disability, and Long Term Care

摘要

The core goals and objectives of this project were organized around providingtechnical assistance to decision makers in planning, allocation, and policy resource building in the network to prepare States and localities to (a) build their own information systems and (b) utilize existing sources of available data. The Heartland Center on Aging, Disability, and Long Term Care was established to act as a centralized access point for using various data bases. This Project produced special issues papers using some of the more relevant national data bases as illustrations of the usefulness of these types of works. Technical assistance was provided through producing three booklength monographs: a practical guide on projecting unmet need from a national data set and two resource volumes on how to conduct needs assessments. This report includes information about the method used in carrying out the project, findings, and outcomes.