SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION JULY 29, 1986 Comm. Pub. No. 96-606 Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Aging 65-855 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1987 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California, Chairman CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida MARIO BIAGGI, New York DON BONKER, Washington THOMAS J. DOWNEY, New York BEVERLY B. BYRON, Maryland HENRY A. WAXMAN, California BUTLER DERRICK, South Carolina MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey, JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas NORMAN D. SHUMWAY, California GEORGE C. WORTLEY, New York CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona GEORGE W. GEKAS, Pennsylvania L RON WYDEN, Oregon GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR., Michigan HARRY M. REID, Nevada ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland BEN BLAZ, Guam PATRICK L. SWINDALL, Georgia FERNANDO TORRES-GIL, Staff Director PAUL SCHLEGEL, Minority Staff Director Charles P. Sabatino, J.D., associate staff director, Commission on Legal Prob- Hadley Hall, R.N., board member, National Association for Home Care........... Joan Quinn, R.N., chairwoman, National Institute on Community-based Long- Joan Quinn, president, Connecticut Community Care, Inc Appendix A: Statement of the Department of Health and Human Services....... Appendix B: Summary of State regulations on home care quality. Appendix C: Home Health Benefits Under Medicare, by Shelah Leader, for |