Campaign for Oregon’s Seniors and People with Disabilities

Report that shows for the first time ever, a state (Oregon) is spending more on home and community-based care than on nursing home care.

Oregon’s Long-Term Care System

The study describes Oregon state policy and implications for long-term-care settings, particularly apartment-style assisted living facilities and more traditional residential care facilities.

Gerontologist Journal (2007): Assisted Living and Residential Care in Oregon - Two Decades of State Policy, Supply and Medicaid Participation Trends

Beginning in August 2005, the Oregon Department of Human Services convened a workgroup to prepare a plan for the future of long-term care in Oregon. The report noted that Oregon has a very progressive long-term care system but has much room for refinement and improvement, and offered dozens of recommendations for change.

State of Oregon Future of Long-Term Care Workgroup Report (2006): Recommendations on the Future of Long-Term Care in Oregon

In May and June 2006, the Governor’s Commission on Senior Services held a series of community forums in partnership with the Oregon Department of Human Services and local agencies on aging to dovetail the state’s Workgroup process and get feedback regarding long-term care and the aging of Oregon. This report summarizes that feedback and also offers a range of recommendations.

Oregon Governor’s Commission on Senior Services Report (2006): Riding the Wave - A Report on the Future of Long-Term Care in Oregon and Long-Range Planning for Oregon’s Communities

Using a long-term care system framework that identifies four areas of reform: access, services, financing, and quality, this report examines promising practices in LTC reform in four States: Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services / Adminstration on Aging Report (2005): Long-Term Care Systems Change for the Aged and Americans With Disabilities - State Profiles

Comes to the conclusion that long-term care threatens to bankrupt Medicaid and the states that pay for it, unless they can cut down the need for institutional care. Takes an in-depth look at Oregon’s strategies.

Governing.Com - Government Performance Project Report (2004): Long-Term Care - The Ticking Bomb

Looks at how states have established greater balance between institutional and community long-term care services, under three different types of strategies: 1) legislative actions; 2) market-based approaches; and 3) fiscal and programmatic linkages. Shows that Oregon took a comprehensive, systematic approach of all three.

Money Follows the Person and Balancing Long-Term Care Systems - State Examples

This report outlines the financing of the U.S. long-term care system and the policies that define it. It finds that LTC is too often a complex system of public and private funding that leaves elderly persons at risk of financial catastrophe and inadequate care, and recommends exploring Oregon’s model.

Long-Term Care In The United States - An Overview

Explores what it calls one of the biggest health challenges ever in affording good care for long-term residents in nursing homes, community settings or their own homes. Includes special look at Oregon’s system called “Oregon leads the way.”

“The Crisis Ahead in Long-Term Care”

Presentation from Roger Auerbach, Administrator of Oregon’s Senior and Disabled Services Division, to the National Chronic Care Consortium regarding the evolution and key components of Oregon’s long-term care system.

State of Oregon Report (1998): The Oregon Long-Term Care Model: Fusing Quality and Client Choice