The current evidence on the adequacy of post-hospital community care, due to the Prospective Payment System, is largely impressionistic. A systematic assessment is required to develop objective evidence on the extent of problems and whether they lead to adverse health outcomes for patients. The...

Increasingly, persons with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities (MR/DD) are being viewed in terms of functional limitations rather than specific categorical conditons. This trend, plus the shift from institutional to community-based service settings for the MR/DD population,...

This report contains information on the extent to which persons with disabilities rely on federal programs, based on the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Imforantion on multiple program participation is also presented. The different levels of functional disability drived in Task...