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Walter Leutz
Researcher at Brandeis University
Publications - 43
Citations - 1486
Walter Leutz is an academic researcher from Brandeis University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Long-term care & Medicaid. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 43 publications receiving 1428 citations.
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Five laws for integrating medical and social services: lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom.
TL;DR: Five "laws of integration" are presented that identify three levels of integration, point to alternative roles for physicians, outline resource requirements, highlight friction from differing medical and social paradigms, and urge policy makers and administrators to consider carefully who would be most appropriately selected to design, oversee, and administer integration initiatives.
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Nursing Assistants' Job Commitment: Effect of Nursing Home Organizational Factors and Impact on Resident Well-Being
Christine E. Bishop,Dana Beth Weinberg,Walter Leutz,Almas Dossa,Susan G. Pfefferle,Rebekah M Zincavage +5 more
TL;DR: The finding that greater job commitment of CNAs is associated with better quality of relationships and life for residents implies that better jobs lead to better care.
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Reflections on Integrating Medical and Social Care: Five Laws Revisited
TL;DR: This paper reviews, rethinks, expands and applies the author’s ‘laws’ of integration, which were first published six years ago, to work at all levels, keep it simple, make finances supportive and empower social care.
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Integrating acute and long-term care
TL;DR: Experience from the social health maintenance organization (social HMO) demonstration shows that for the elderly at least, community long-term care can be integrated with acute care, at a manageable cost.
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Community-based care and risk of nursing home placement
Lucy Rose Fischer,Carla A. Green,Michael J. Goodman,Kathleen K. Brody,Mikel Aickin,Feifei Wei,Linda W. Phelps,Walter Leutz +7 more
TL;DR: The Social HMO appears to help at-risk elderly postpone long-term nursing home placement, and adjustment for variations in the 2 sites found no difference in probability of mortality between the 2 cohorts, but approximately a 40% increase in long- term institutional placement associated with the termination of the Social H MO at HealthPartners.