In collaboration with a group of prominent health policy researchers and clinicians, the Milbank Memorial Fund presents a series of electronic articles. The goal of the project is to take advantage of the World Wide Web forum and information network while controlling for high quality of content. Each featured article in the series will be in "review" narrative, presenting the policy trade-offs of a particular subject.

Paul D. Cleary, Editor
Daniel M. Fox, Publisher

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"Long-Term Care for the Elderly with Disabilities: Current Policy, Emerging Trends, and Implications for the Twenty-First Century"
By Robyn Stone
January 2000

This paper describes the current status of the three-legged stool of long-term care policy: financing, delivery and workforce development, and identifies key trends and projections that will help shape the nature and scope of policy in an aging America. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of current and emerging trends for the three dimensions of long-term care policy.

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"Information Policy for the U.S. Health Sector: Engineering, Political Economy, and Ethics"
By F. Reid Cushman, Ph.D. and Don E. Detmer, M.D.
January 1998

This paper examines, in necessarily brief form, the engineering, economic, political and ethical issues that have emerged in the debates over health care data protection policy, and examines the major features of legislation now before the Congress. Readers who wish a fuller treatment of these issues may consult the materials listed in the "References," "Other Documents," and "Internet/WWW Resources" sections, many of which are available online.