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DALTCP & Its Divisions | DALTCP Staff List | DALTCP Website Awards
The Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) is responsible for the development, coordination, research and evaluation of HHS policies and programs which support the independence, productivity, health and security of people with disabilities, including children, working age adults, and older persons. DALTCP also is responsible for policy coordination and research to promote the economic and social well-being of these populations.
DALTCP is responsible for relevant aspects of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as integration of other federal and private programs and policies concerning: long-term care and post-acute care (PAC) and personal assistance services (PAS) including: informal caregiving; linkages between acute, post-acute and long-term care systems; long-term rehabilitation services; children's disability; health and long-term care-related employment supports; and the encouragement of mechanisms for coordinating the housing, health, income supports, and education, training and employment needs of people with disabilities. These responsibilities are carried out through policy planning, policy and budget analysis, regulatory reviews, formulation of legislative proposals, policy research and evaluation. DALTCP is the lead office within HHS/OS for policy research and analysis related to international aging and disability issues.
DALTCP has designed and led large national data collection on a range of topics important to policy makers, such as disability in the U.S., the direct care workforce in long-term care and assisted living. In addition, DALTCP maintains a long-term care financing model, which may be (and has been) used to estimate reform proposals.
DALTCP works closely with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Administration on Aging (AoA), Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Office of Disability, the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Departments of Education, Labor, and Housing and Urban Development.
The DALTCP Division of Long-Term Care Policy (LTCP) is responsible for policy coordination and development for HHS programs that provide long-term care and PAS to all persons (regardless of age or income) who, because of illness or disability, require assistance with the routine activities of daily life. The Division's responsibilities include long-range planning, budget and economic analysis, data development and analysis, program analysis, review of regulations and reports on legislation, review and conduct of research and evaluation activities, and information dissemination.
The long-term care population includes the frail elderly, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with physical disabilities, disabled children and others requiring assistance over a long period. The Division is the focal point for policy development and analysis related to financing, access/delivery, and quality of long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare and the Older Americans Act including institutional and community residential services, PAS, home health and rehabilitation services, and the integration of acute, post-acute and long-term care services.
The Division works on these matters with CMS, AoA, ADD, and Public Health Service.
The DALTCP Division of Disability and Aging Policy (DAP) is ASPE’s lead office with responsibility for coordination, economic analysis, policy development, research and evaluation of HHS policies and programs focusing on persons with disabilities (including the Developmental Disabilities Act) and older Americans, including measuring and evaluating the impact of Older Americans Act programs.
The Division also is responsible for supporting the development and coordination of cross-cutting disability and aging data, and policies within HHS and in other federal agencies whose actions affect the health, economic and social well-being of persons with disabilities and elderly populations.
The Division is responsible for assessing the interaction between health, disability, and the economic well-being of persons of all ages with disabilities including the prevalence of disability and disabling conditions, socio-demographic characteristics, service use, income, employment, and program participation patterns, and for coordinating the development of disability data and policies which are responsive to the characteristics, circumstances and needs of disabled populations. DAP’s responsibilities include long-range planning, budget and economic analysis, program analysis, review of regulations and reports on legislation, review and conduct of research and evaluation activities, and information dissemination.
The Division examines the costs and effectiveness of alternative financing and service delivery models through evaluations, demonstrations, model development, and analysis of survey data and evaluations of ongoing programs. DAP addresses data collection and the development of equivalent disability measures for the cognitively impaired, persons with mental retardation or other developmental disabilities, the chronically mentally ill, and children. DAP examines trends in disability and aging for their implications for HHS's policies and programs.
The Division works closely on these matters with CMS, AoA, ADD, NIA, NCHS, AHRQ, and SSA.
DALTCP interacts closely with the ASPE Office of Health Policy on long-term care and PAC issues, the ASPE Office of Science and Data Policy on data and health information technology (health IT) issues, and the ASPE Office of Human Services Policy on disability-related issues.
Below is a list of staff within the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy and the issues they work on.
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Vacant |
Deputy Assistant Secretary |
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RUTH KATZ |
Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Secretary |
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WILLIAM MARTON |
Director, Division of Disability and Aging
Policy |
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GAVIN KENNEDY |
Director, Division of Long-Term Care Policy |
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VIDHYA ALAKESON |
Mental Health, particularly Serious Mental Illness & Disability; Medicaid & Mental Health; Consumer-Direction, including Comparative International Approaches; Integration of Primary Care & Behavioral Health; Children's Mental Health |
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HAKAN AYKAN |
Demography of Aging & Disability; Research Design & Evaluation Methods; Demographic & Statistical Estimation & Modeling; Data Policy; Quality Improvement Organizations; Home Health, Assistive Devices |
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MARIE BELT |
Administrative Support |
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CASEY CHANDLER |
Administrative Support |
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PAMELA DOTY |
Home & Community-Based Services, including State Organization, Consumer-Directed Services, Client Assessment & Case Management; Informal Caregiving; Comparisons of Long-Term Care Systems in Other Countries; Long-Term Care Insurance |
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JOHN DRABEK |
Microsimulation Modeling; Nursing Home Spend-Down; Cost Estimating; Medicaid Data Analysis; Disability Survey Analysis; Data Policy |
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VALERIE FOX |
Graduate Student Intern |
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JENNIE HARVELL |
Health Information Technology in Long-Term Care; Post-Acute Assessment; Nursing Home Policy, including Long-Term Care & Post-Acute Care |
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HUNTER McKAY |
Long-Term Care Insurance, Outreach & Awareness; Long-Term Care Partnership; Managed Care & Disability; Integration of Acute & Long-Term Care; Medicare & Insurance Issues for the Elderly & Persons with Disabilities; Durable Medical Equipment & Wheelchairs |
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JUDITH PERES |
End-of-Life Care; Advance Directives; Hospice Financing & Delivery |
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SUSAN POLNIASZEK |
Nursing Homes; Rehabilitation; Long-Term Care Financing & Quality; Residential Alternatives; Post-Acute Care |
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EMILY ROSENOFF |
1115 Waiver Review; Residential Alternatives including Assisted Living; Direct Care Workforce; Medicaid; Administration on Aging Issues |
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PRITI SHAH |
Graduate Student Intern |
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SAM SHIPLEY |
Long-Term Care Insurance; Long-Term Care Awareness & Outreach; Health Information Technology in Long-Term Care |
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MARIE SQUILLACE |
Long-Term Care Workforce in Nursing Homes, Post-Acute Care, Home Health & Other Community-Based Settings; Medicare; Medicaid; Long-Term Care Quality; Statistical Estimation & Modeling, Research Design & Evaluation Methods |
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BRENDA VEAZEY |
Website; Administrative Support |
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HELEN ZAYAC |
Health Promotion & Prevention for the Elderly & Persons with Disabilities; Falls Prevention; Workforce Barriers for the Elderly & Persons with Disabilities; Elder Abuse; New Freedom Initiative; Policies Related to Children with Disabilities; Autism |
DALTCP has received the following awards for its website.
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June 1999 |
Selected as a featured site in StudyWeb as one of the best educational resources on the web by its Researchers. StudyWeb is one of the Internet's sites for educational resources for students and teachers. |
Last revised: March 13, 2009
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