TEST BATTERY FOR COGNITIVE SCREENING OF ELDERLY

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from Investigator's Abstract): The application proposes to develop a new, cost effective, neuropsychological test battery which is aimed at the elderly, cross cultural, and inner city populations. This battery will be useful to a wide variety of agencies which deal directly or indirectly with these populations, including hospitals, clinics, and local, state, and federal health and human services agencies. $ = TOTAL AWARD AMTS & NOT LIMITED TO PORTION OF PROJECT RELATED TO SUBJECT OF SEARCH SUBPROJECT $ = TOTAL AWARD AMOUNT DIVIDED BY NUMBER OF SUBPROJECTS SOURCE: CRISP FORMAT F FY 97 LAST UPDATE 04-07-98 1QUERY 1536 ID SEARCH 06/01/98 PAGE 21 --PROJECT NUMBER......1 R43 AG14312-01 INVESTIGATOR NAME/ADDRESS FY 97 COHEN, MARC A IRG/INTRAMURAL UNIT..ZRG5 LIFEPLANS, INC AWARD AMOUNT......... $100,000 51 SAWYER ROAD WALTHAM, MA 02154 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: LIFEPLANS, INC. TITLE AUTOMATION OF LONG TERM CARE PROVIDER PROFILING TOOL ABSTRACT: The purpose of this Phase I project is to develop a prototype for a PC- based Profiling Tool for the evaluation of long-term care providers including nursing homes and home health care agencies. To date, an automated Long-Term Care Provider Profiling Tool does not exist although such tools are used extensively in acute care. The major aim of the proposed Profiling Tool is to enable managed care organizations (HMOs), hospitals, the state, and insures to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of long-term care providers. The Tool will provide aggregate profiling information of patterns of service use, costs, and measures, related to the effectiveness or quality of service. It would enable comparisons across providers on key parameters; provide national "bench marks" on selected profiling characteristic, and HMOs to have an informed basis on which to develop long term care preferred provider organizations (PPOs) or integrate acute and long-term care network. As movement toward greater integration of acute and long-term care service continues, the need for a profiling tool to evaluate, monitor and compare long-term care providers on key utilization, cost and effectiveness measures will increase.