Factors Associated with State Utilization of Nursing Facilities for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (R12)
Principal Investigator:David Braddock, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator(s): Mary Rizzolo, MA

Goals:

• Examine secondary data from the State of the States study of DD financing and from the Minimum Data Set (MDS) to test a model of states’ nursing facility utilization for individuals with I/DD
• Identify factors associated with state utilization of nursing facilities as a significant part of its service delivery system in 1991 and 2002
• Identify factors associated with change in state utilization of nursing facilities for individuals with I/DD since passage of OBRA ’87
• Identify the characteristics of individuals with I/DD in nursing facilities