State practices in providing health and long-term care to dually eligible persons (original) (raw)

was established in 1989 and receives ongoing funding from the Ohio General Assembly through the Ohio Board of Regents. Dr. Mehdizadeh's research expertise is in estimating prevalence of disability among older population, examining health and long-term care utilization patterns of dual eligible persons, and evaluating long-term care use patterns of disabled people. Her work at Scripps Gerontology Center includes a series of projections of the number of disabled older people in Ohio and their needs (with Suzanne Kunkel and Robert Applebaum). She is the co-principal investigator on an eight-year longitudinal study in Ohio that tracks use patterns for home and nursing home care for the Ohio Department of Aging. She recently completed a study of health and long-term care utilization patterns of dually eligible persons in Ohio. Currently she is the principal investigator of a project entitled Dual Eligibles: How Do They Utilize Health and Long-Term Care Services. Her interests are in designing and evaluating coordinated health and long-term care delivery systems for dual eligible persons.