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The Gerontologist 45:609-616 (2005)
© 2005 The Gerontological Society of America

Medicaid Home Care Services and Survival in New York City

Steven M. Albert, PhD, MSc1,2, Bridget Simone, DrPH3, Andrea Brassard, DNS4, Yaakov Stern, PhD1 and Richard Mayeux, MD, MSc1

Correspondence: Address correspondence to Steven M. Albert, PhD, MSc, Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, PH-19, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032. E-mail: sma10{at}columbia.edu

Purpose: New York City's Medicaid Home Care Services Program provides an integrated program of housekeeping and personal assistance care along with regular nursing assessments. We sought to determine if this program of supportive care offers a survival benefit to older adults. Design and Methods: Administrative data from New York City's Medicaid Home Care Services Program were merged with epidemiologic and diagnostic data collected in a community study of older adults living in northern Manhattan. Of 866 older adults with Medicaid coverage living in the community, 288 (33.3%) received Medicaid home care services in the period from 1994 to 1996. Mortality was tracked through the end of 1999. Results: In proportional hazards models that adjusted for differences in sociodemographic, medical, and functional status, use of Medicaid home care service was associated with a significantly reduced risk of death in people with disability in activities of daily living. Implications: Because the program has distinctive features (greater number of weekly hours than other programs, integration with nursing assessments), it is a special case of community-based long-term care. Still, results from this observational cohort suggest that mortality risk in the most vulnerable elderly population can be reduced through a program of supportive care.

Key Words: Survival • Home attendant care • Medicaid • Population-based study • Dementia






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