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A Trade-Off Proposal for Funding Long-Term Care

Measuring the Contributions of Motives and Perceived Barriers to Active Aging
The Demography of Disability and the Effects of Immigrant History: Older Asians in the United States

• Active Aging: Motives and Barriers (May 2005)
• Elders in Massachusetts Prefer Paid Caregivers
• Residential Adjustment of Elders: Perspectives of Elders and Their Adult Children
• Motivation for Active Aging: Results of a Pilot Study
• Consumer Perspectives on Quality in Adult Day Care
• Implications of Changing Social Norms for Social Security Benefits: Results of Pilot Research
• Retirement and High Level Human Capital
• Toward Improved Support for Research on Delivery of Home-and Community-Based Long-Term Care (December 2000)
• Vision 2020 Task Force: Background Paper on Long-Term Care in Massachusetts (April 2000)
• Providing Low-Cost Assistive Equipment Through Home Care Services: The Massachusetts Assistive Equipment Demonstration (April 2000)
• Training for Older People in Applied Social Research Methods (December 1999)
• Work and Retirement in a Society for All Ages (September 1999)
• Changing Family Structure and Social Security: The Case of the United States (August 1999)
• Retirement Income Situations in Some Asia/Oceanic Countries: Economic and Non-economic Factors (June 1999)

• Productive Aging and Political Participation. Burr, Jeffrey A., Francis Caro, and Jennifer Moorhead (2000). (Contact jeffrey.burr@umb.edu)
• The Effect of Housing Market Characteristics on Minority Elderly Living Arrangements. Mutchler, Jan E., Jeffrey A. Burr, and Donald W. Matteson (2000). (Contact jan.mutchler@umb.edu)
• Structure and Intensity in Productive Aging. Mutchler, Jan E., Jeffrey A. Burr, and Francis Caro (2000). (Contact jan.mutchler@umb.edu)
• Changing Constellations of Productive Aging in Later Life. Mutchler, Jan E., Jeffrey A. Burr, and Francis Caro (2000). (Contact jan.mutchler@umb.edu)
• Intergenerational perspectives on residential decisions for older parents. Gottlieb, A. S. & Johns, E. (2004). The Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston. (Contact alison.gottlieb@umb.edu)
• Aging with chronic disability: The perspective of people living with multiple sclerosis. Gottlieb, A.S. & Bruner-Canhoto, L. (2001). Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston. (Contact alison.gottlieb@umb.edu)
• Independent Living Arrangements among Older Persons: Individual and Contextual Effects. Burr, Jeffrey A. and Jan E. Mutchler. (2004). (Contact jeffrey.burr@umb.edu)
• Caregiving and Volunteering: Are Private and Public Helping Behaviors Linked?. Burr, Jeffrey A., Namkee Choi, Jan E. Mutchler, and Francis Caro. (2004). (Contact jeffrey.burr@umb.edu)
• Productive Activity and Subjective Well-Being. Baker, Lindsey, Larry Cahalin, Kerstin Gerst, and Jeffrey Burr. (2003). (Contact jeffrey.burr@umb.edu)
• The Demography of Disability Among Older Asians in the United States: The Effects of Immigration History. Mutchler, Jan E., Archana Prakash, and Jeffrey A. Burr. (2004). (Contact jeffrey.burr@umb.edu)
• A Typology of Productive Activity in Later Life. Burr, Jeffrey A., Jan E. Mutchler and Francis Caro. (2004). (Contact jeffrey.burr@umb.edu)