Publications
These are the available documents and publications from the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging.
Long-Term Care Policy Issues
Polivka, L. & Zayac, H. (2007) ,
The aging network and the future of long-term care
(The Gerontologist, forthcoming).
Mitchell, G., Salmon, J.R., Polivka, L. & Soberon-Ferrer, H. (2006)
The relative benefits and costs of Medicaid home-and community-based services in Florida.
(The Gerontologist, 46(4), pp. 483-494.
Polivka, L. & Zayac, H. (2006, Nov.-Dec.)
The aging network’s role in the future of long-term care.
(Aging Today, 27(6), pp. 3-4.
Borrayo, E., Salmon, J.R., Polivka, L. & Dunlop, B. (2004).
Who is being served? Program eligibility and home- and community-based services use.
(Journal of Applied Gerontology, 23(2), pp. 120-140.
Polivka, L., Salmon, J.R., Hyer, K. Johnson, C. & Hedgecock, D. (2003)
The nursing home problem in Florida.
(The Gerontologist, 43 (Special Issue II).
Polivka, L. (2003)
Autonomy and consumer empowerment in long-term care: Making quality of life the organizing principle for long-term care policy. In Ronch, J. & Goldfield, J. (Eds.).
(Mental Wellness in Aging: Strengths-Based Approaches. Baltimore: Health Professions Press.
Carbonell, J. & Polivka, L. (2003)
The aging network and the future of long-term care.
(Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 41(3/4), pp. 312-321.
Polivka, L. (2001, Oct.)
Paying family members to provide care: Policy considerations for states.
Policy brief for Family Caregiver Alliance: San Francisco.
Polivka, L. & Salmon, J. (2001, June)
Consumer directed care: An ethical, empirical, and practical guide to state policymakers.
(Report funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Independent Choices Grant #032246.
Longino, C. & Polivka, L. (2001, Spring)
The effects of changing values on the provision of long-term care.
(Generations, XXV(1).
Polivka, L. (2001, Jan/Feb)
Long-term care in Florida: A review of the task force report.
Florida Counties.
Polivka, L. Salmon, J. (2000)
The ethical and empirical basis for consumer-directed care for the frail elderly.
Contemporary Gerontology, (7)2, 50-52.
Polivka, L., Pienta, A. (2000, Oct.)
The future of American healthcare.
Paper prepared for the University of Illinois Nursing Institute: Urbana.
Polivka, L. (2000, Jan/Feb)
The home-and-community strategy: A policy, financing framework.
Aging Today.
Polivka, L. (2000, June)
Maintaining autonomy helps seniors live with dignity.
Parent Care Advisor.
Polivka, L. (1999)
The science and ethics of long-term care.
In Ethics and Aging: Bringing the Issues Home. New York: Springer.
Polivka, L. (Fall 1998)
Long-term care in the 21st century.
Responses to an Aging Florida.
Polivka, L. (1996, Fall)
Can nonprofits flourish in a world of managed care.
Perspectives on Aging, 18-23.
Polivka, L. (1996, Fall)
Managed care and the aging Network: Making the system work for elders.
Managed Care & Aging, 3(3), 1-2.
Polivka, L. (2002)
Empowering frail elderly people: Opportunities and impediments in housing, health, and support service delivery.
Contemporary Gerontology, 8(4), 2-5.
Polivka, L. (1999, June)
Long-term care at the turn of the century.
The Gerontologist, 39(3).
Polivka, L. (1996, Aug.)
The old age challenge to the biomedical model paradigm strain and health policy.
Journal of Aging and Identity, 1(3), 211-220.
Polivka, L. (1996, Mar.)
Autonomy and long-term care.
Journal of Aging and Identity, 1(1), 73-77).
Polivka, L. (1995)
An ethic for long-term care: The role of autonomy.
Journal of Mental Health and Aging, 1(1).
Retirement Security
Polivka, L. (2008)
Back to the future: Restoring economic security for workers and retirees.
The Gerontologist, 48(3), 404-412.
Polivka, L. & Kwak. J. (2008).
Medicare privatization and the erosion of retirement security.
Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 20(4) (forthcoming)
Polivka, L. (2007)
Growing risk in an aging nation.
The Gerontologist, 47(2) , 255-263.
Polivka, L. (2007)
Medicare and the future of retirement security.
The Gerontologist, 47(1), 123-130.
Polivka, L. (2004)
The high stakes struggle over the future of Medicare.
The Gerontologist, 44(5), 709-713.
Nursing Home Litigation
Johnson, C., Hedgecock, D, Oakley, M., Dobalian, A., Salmon, J., Hyer, K. & Polivka, L. (2004)
Predictors of lawsuit activity against nursing homes in Hillsborough County Florida.
Health Care Management Review 29(2) , 1-9.
Hedgecock, D., Johnson, Oakley, M. Salmon, J., Polivka, L. & Hyer, K. (2003)
Nature and extent of nursing facility lawsuits.
Long-Term Care Interface, 4(110) . 1535-203X.
Polivka, L., Salmon, J. & Hyer, K. (2002, Feb.)
Nursing home quality, litigation and insurance in Florida.
Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging: Tampa.
Globalization and Aging
Polivka, L. & Borrayo, E. (2007)
Globalization, population aging, and ethics, Part II: Toward a just global society.
In A. Sahoo, G. Andrews & S. Rajan, Sociology of Ageing: A Reader. New Delhi, India: Rawat Publisher. (Reprinted from Journal of Aging and Identity, 7(3) pp.195-211, by L. Lenker and L. Polivka, Eds., 2002, New York: Human Sciences Press. (in press).
Polivka, L. (2001)
Globalization, population aging and ethics.
Journal of Aging & Identity, (6)3, 147-163.
Borrayo, E., Herrera, J., Polivka, L. & Haley, W. (2002, Feb.)
Globalization and aging in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
First project report for the University of South Florida/Globalization Research Center: Tampa.
Politics of Aging
Polivka, L. (2001, Dec.)
Politics, culture, and aging policy in the new century.
The Gerontologist, pp. 833-837.
Polivka, L. (2000)
Wither goest the baby boom? Politics and values in an aging society.
The Gerontologist, (40)2, 246-251.