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...reduction in drinking for this group could easily move them out of the risky-drinking range and into the range that is believed to have neutral or even potentially positive health consequences. For example, cutting back from 21 drinks a week to 14 puts a man in the range that is considered moderate by U.S.-government guidelines. For women, the recommendation is no more than seven drinks per week. "It's a way to get people to think about drinking and motivate them to change if they think they are drinking too much," says Cunningham...
...Year in Health 2009: From...
...appears that there are unmeasured factors at play, such as property taxes or local regulations, that influence our measure for the distribution of assisted living facilities,” said David C. Grabowski, associate professor of health care policy at HMS and the paper’s co-author...
...contrast to nursing homes, which are primarily funded by Medicaid and Medicare, assisted living homes have traditionally been financed privately. As a result, “it makes sense” that they would naturally be found in areas of higher income, said David G. Stevenson, assistant professor of health policy at HMS and lead author of the paper...
Currently, assisted living is not covered by most states and is paid out-of-pocket by individuals. Grabowski said the system “accentuates a two-tiered elderly health care,” in which people from lower income communities live in Medicaid-financed nursing homes, while those who can afford the costs choose assisted living—the favored type of care...