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...Alice M. Rivlin, who is spending a semester in residence at the Kennedy School of Government, has studied this problem for more than three years and is publishing a book on the topic. which she co-authored with a policy analyst, entitled, Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will pay? The text is scheduled to be in bookstores next month...
...Rivlin, who is serving in the post of visiting professor of public policy at the K-School, has focused her research on the issue of long-term health care and had then tried to determine the best means of ensuring that all individuals--regardless of personal income--can afford high quality medical services...
...research is focused on long-term care, meaning not hospital care, but home care and nursing care to help people function--for people who don't need medical help so much but need help dressing, feeding and moving around," Rivlin says...
...Right now that's a growing need because a lot more people are living to advanced ages. The most rapidly growing population in the United States is the very elderly," says Rivlin, who is taking time off from a position as senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, a public policy research center in Washington...
...where Greenspan is much better known, most economic thinkers and money managers hailed the Fed newcomer -- once they had regretted Volcker's departure. Said Frederick Joseph, chief executive officer of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm: "Volcker had credibility. Greenspan will have to grow into it." Agreed Alice Rivlin, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and a fellow member of TIME's Board of Economists: "Volcker had the confidence of the world. That will be the hardest thing for Greenspan to build...