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The Quality of Health Care

What are the Effects of Managed Care on Adult Guardianship Agencies and Clients? A Focus Group Report

Research Report

August 1998


This 24-page report by Erica F. Wood, Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, American Bar Association, summarizes focus group discussions that were conducted at the 1997 National Guardianship Association conference. (Focus group participants were attendees at this conference.) The purpose of this study was to identify issues for further research concerning the effect of managed care on adult guardianship clients and to inform the development of educational materials to facilitate the relationship between guardianship agencies and managed care plans.

Pub ID: 9808