Scholarly Commons @ MU
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Asian American College Students and Civic Engagement
(2009-11-13)This chapter centers Asian American young adults within a discussion about civic engagement by highlighting findings from 35 years of data on Asian American college freshmen. It will also address future directions for ... -
Attitudes and Advocacy: Understanding Faculty Views on Racial/Ethnic Diversity
(2009-10-08)Diversity has been a hot-button issue in higher education for the past several decades (Chang, Witt, Jones & Hakuta, 2003). A significant portion of research has been dedicated to how students experience the campus ... -
Training Case Managers to Administer the Service Adequacy and Satisfaction Instrument (SASI)
(2009-07-14)This manual provides instruction for face-to-face interviewing using the Service Adequacy and Satisfaction Instrument. -
Area Agencies on Aging and The Future of Long-Term Care
(2009-07-14)This report presents the findings from the 2008 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging. Results are presented on the following topics: AAAs at the Center of Aging Ready Communities, The Expanding Role of AAAs in Long-Term ... -
Providing Long-Term Services and Supports to an Aging Ohio : Progress and Challenges
(2009-06-04)This report details trends in Ohio long-term care service utilization over 14 years. It also provides information about the characteristics of those in different settings such as PASSPORT, nursing homes, and residential ... -
Implementation of the 2008 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey : Final Report
(2009-04-21)In 2008, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the third bi-annual nursing home family satisfaction survey under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. Refinements to the survey instrument showed continued high ... -
Consumer Direction in Ohio : Findings From Two Demonstration Projects
(2009-04-20)This report provides findings from evaluations of two consumer-directed home care programs in Ohio. Results suggest consumer direction provides a good alternative to agency-managed home care services. -
Worker Injuries and Safety Equipment in Ohio Nursing Homes
(2009-04-08)A survey of nursing homes was conducted in 2006 to evaluate a number of facility-specific characteristics including worker injury rates. The nursing home worker injury rate was 6.6 per 100 workers with higher injury rates ... -
Aging and Long-Term Care Issues in Ohio
(2009-04-02)This summary report focuses on aging and disability in Ohio as well as on utilization and Medicaid costs of long-term care for older Ohioans. -
An Evaluation of the Assisted Living Medicaid Waiver Program
(2009-03-25)In the past decade the number of older people across the United States with disability has increased by about 20%, and the national Medicaid long-term care costs have nearly doubled. In response to these challenges, states ... -
Disability in Ohio : Long-Term Care Providers & Programs
(2009-02-25)This report describes the range of options used in the long-term care system in Ohio. For each provider or program, we report the eligibility requirements, consumer characteristics, capacity, utilization rate, average ...