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

Joshua M. Wiener

Expertise

Aging Programs and Policy
Disability and Long-Term Care
Medicaid
Health Economics

Biography

Joshua M. Wiener, PhD, Distinguished Fellow and program director of RTI's Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Program, appointed June 2003 (as Senior Fellow), is the author or editor of 8 books and over 100 articles on health care for older people, people with disabilities, long-term care, Medicaid, health reform, health care rationing, and maternal and child health. He is currently involved in studies of Medicaid home and community-based services, the long-term care workforce, quality assurance for long-term care, and projection and simulation models for long-term care. Dr. Wiener is co-director of the U.S. Administration on Aging-funded Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States National Resource Center. Before 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.

Selected Publications

Wiener, J. (May 2006). You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide: Long-Term Care for Older People and Younger Persons with Disabilities. Testimony presented at the House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on "Planning for Long-Term Care," on May 17, 2006, in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building..

O'Keeffe, J., & Wiener, J.M. (2004). Public Funding for Long-Term Care Services for Older People in Residential Care Settings. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 18 (3/4):51-79.

Bruen, B.K., Wiener, J.M., & Thomas, S. (November 2003). Medicaid Eligibility Policy for Aged, Blind, and Disabled Beneficiaries.

Wiener, J.M., Tilly, J., & Cuellar, A.E. (October 2003). Consumer-Directed Home Care in the Netherlands, England, and Germany.

Holahan, J., Weil, A., & Wiener, J.M. (July 2003). Federalism and Health Policy. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

Wiener, J.M. (April 2003). An Assessment of Strategies for Improving Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. Gerontologist, 43 (Spec. Iss. II):19-27.

Wiener, J.M., Tilly, J., & Alecxih, L.M.B. (Spring 2002). Home and community-based services in seven states. Health Care Financing Review, 23 (3):89-114.

Wiener, J.M., Estes, C.L., Goldenson, S.M., & Goldberg, S.C. (2001). What happened to long-term care in the health reform debate of 1993-1994? Lessons for the future. Milbank Quarterly, 79 (2):207-252.

Cuellar, A.E., & Wiener, J.M. (May-Jun 2000). Can social insurance for long-term care work? The experience of Germany. Health Affairs, 19 (3):8-25.

Wiener, J.M., Stevenson, D.G., & Kasten, J. (2000 May 08). State Cost Containment Initiatives for Long-Term Care Services for Older People. CRS Report for Congress.

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