Building Bridges has supported a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and issue briefs based on themes explored by annual Colloquia and Policy Seminars.

• Consumer-Preparedness for Long-Term Care
  The Commonwealth Fund and AcademyHealth brought together a panel of experts at the 2007 Building Bridges Colloquium to discuss long-term care planning.
  
• Medicare and Medicaid: Conflicting Incentives for Long-Term Care
  David C. Grabowski, Ph.D.
  David Grabowski, Ph.D., associate professor at Harvard Medical School, recently published an article in the December 2007 issue of the Milbank Quarterly, titled “Medicare and Medicaid: Conflicting Incentives for Long-Term Care.” The article is based on a paper commissioned for the 2007 Building Bridges Colloquium about Medicare and Medicaid's conflicting incentives for providing efficient, high-quality care to dual-eligible populations.
  
  
• Affordable Clustered Housing-Care: A Viable Alternative for Long-Term Care in a Residential Setting?
  In a paper commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund for the 2005 Building Bridges Colloquium, Stephen Golant, Ph.D., explores one approach to the pressing policy challenge of merging the worlds of housing and long-term care.
  
• Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care with Better Information
  Vincent Mor, Ph.D.
  Vincent Mor, Ph.D., professor of medical science and chair of the Department of Community Health at Brown University, published an article in the September 2005 issue of the Milbank Quarterly, titled “Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care with Better Information.” The article is based on a paper commissioned for the 2004 Building Bridges Colloquium about inadequacies in the quality and use of quality information.
  
• Unmet Long-Term Care Needs: An Analysis of Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles
  Harriet L. Komisar, Ph.D., Judith Feder, Ph.D., Judith D. Kasper, Ph.D.
  Judith Feder, Ph.D., professor and dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, and her co-authors published an article in the Summer 2005 issue of Inquiry, titled “Unmet Long-Term Care Needs: An Analysis of Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles.” The article is based on a paper commissioned for the 2004 Building Bridges Colloquium summarizing survey data from six states about the unmet long-term care needs of people eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.

AcademyHealth has released three issue briefs detailing how research has improved long-term care service delivery and policy in the past, and how it might continue to do so in the future.

• Long-Term Care: Collaborating for Solutions
  profiles successful collaborations between providers, policymakers, and researchers to improve service delivery, policymaking, and research related to long-term care, and discusses their benefits and challenges.
  
• Long-Term Care: Informed by Research
  highlights areas in which publicly and privately funded research has informed long-term care service delivery and policy.
  
• Long-Term Care: Confronting Today’s Challenges
  identifies challenges for long-term care policy and service delivery (e.g., workforce shortages, integration of care), which can be ameliorated, in part, by information provided by health services research.

On June 18, 2003, AcademyHealth also held a press briefing on this issue. The briefing featured a recently published paper¹ by Penny Feldman and Robert Kane and a soon to be published paper² by Peter Kemper, also making the case for building evidence in long-term care. A web cast of the event is available at kaisernetwork.org.

¹ Feldman, P.K. and R.L. Kane. “Strengthening Research to Improve the Practice and Management
of Long-Term Care,” Milbank Quarterly, June 2003, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 179-220.
² Kemper, P. “Long-Term Care Research and Policy,” The Gerontologist, August 2003, forthcoming.