Joshua Wiener
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Joshua M. Wiener

Distinguished Fellow, Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care

Joshua M. Wiener, PhD, directs RTI's Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Program and is the author or editor of eight books and more than 200 articles and reports on health care for older people, people with disabilities, long-term services and supports, Medicaid, health reform, health care rationing, and maternal and child health. Dr. Wiener is currently involved in studies of Medicaid spend down, medical homes, residential care facilities, the risk of institutionalization, and long-term care awareness and planning. He is also co-director of the Administration on Aging-funded Alzheimer's Disease Supportive Services Program National Resource Center. Prior to coming to RTI, Dr. Wiener did policy analysis and research for the Urban Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Health Care Financing Administration, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Congressional Budget Office, the New York State Moreland Act Commission on Nursing Homes and Residential Facilities, and the New York City Department of Health.

Education

PhD, Sociology, Harvard University; MS, Sociology, Harvard University; BS, Sociology, University of Chicago.

Publications

Insuring Americans for long-term care: Challenges and limitations of voluntary insurance
Tumlinson, A., Hammelman, E., Stair, E., & Wiener, J.M. (Mar 2013)
Medicaid spend down: Implications for long-term services and supports and aging policy
Wiener, J.M., Anderson, W.L., Khatutsky, G., Kaganova, Y., O'Keeffe, J., Tumlinson, A., et al. (Mar 2013)
Medicaid spend down: New estimates and implications for long-term services and supports financing reform. Final report
Wiener, J.M., Anderson, W., Khatutsky, G., Kaganova, Y., & O'Keeffe, J. (Mar 2013)
Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations of Dually Eligible Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries from Nursing Facility and Home- and Community-Based Services Waiver Programs — Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Walsh, E.G., Wiener, J.M., Haber, S., Bragg, A., Freiman, M., & Ouslander, J.G. (May 2012)
Work-related injuries among certified nursing assistants working in US nursing homes
Khatutsky, G., Wiener, J.M., Anderson, W.L., & Porell, F.W. (Apr 2012)
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