Should Health Care Reform mean rationing? A Center for Policy Studies Discussion (2009)
Binstock, Robert H., Silvers, J. B. (John Byron)
Three of Case Western Reserve University's health care policy scholars discuss the current health care reform, particularly with regard to the notion of rationing health care. Rationing health care...
Older Voters and the 2008 Election (2009)
Purpose: In the 2008 presidential election, a majority of older persons voted for John McCain, the loser. The purposes of this report are to help illuminate why older voters were the only age-group...
When Research Will Not Follow Where Questions Lead: The Boundaries of Dementia Research (1999)
Binstock, Robert H., Ballenger, Jesse F., Whitehouse, Peter J.
The 1996 Election: Older Voters and Implications for Policies on Aging (1997)
Aggregate national exit poll data from the 1996 presidential election suggest that voters aged 60 and older were not influenced by age-related policy issues, such as Medicare, any morethan younger...
Is Attempting to Assess Biological Age Worth the Effort? (1995)
Binstock, Robert H., Ingram, Donald K., Shock, Nathan W., Stoll, Siegfried, Baker, George T.
Medication Use and the Elderly (1994)
Binstock, Robert H., Monane, Mark, Gurwitz, Jerry H., Avorn, Jerry
For more than a decade, incremental changes have gradually eroded the traditional approach in many policies that have relied primarily on specific old-age categories to determine eligibility for...
The Mosaic of Needs for Elderly with Mental Health Concerns (1993)
Binstock, Robert H., Evans, Lois, Buckwalter, Kathleen, Ftilmer, Terry
Older Voters and the 1992 Presidential Election (1992)
At the core of the so-called “generational equity” construct is the notion that older persons exercise self-interested political power. This article examines what we know about one element of the...
Title III of the Older Americans Act: An Analysis and Proposal for the 1987 Reauthorization (1987)
The Older Americans Act once again faces Congressional reauthorization in 1987. Considered here are the present and future roles of the Aging Services Network that is funded by Title III of the Act....
Perspectives on Measuring Hardship: Concepts, Dimensions, and Implications (1986)
This symposium on measuring hardship illuminates three topics of ongoing salience. First, it demonstrates that hardship is a relative concept rather than a condition that can be described by...
Campaigning for "The Senior Vote:" A Case Study of Carter's 1976 Campaign (1978)
Riemer, Yosef, Binstock, Robert H.
Do politicians behave on the conventional premise that old-age based election campaign efforts can shift the votes of older persons from one candidate to another? The premise, though unsupported by...
Federalism and Leadership- Planning Predictors of Variance in State Behavior (1974)
Binstock, Robert H., Cherington, Carolyn M., Woll, Peter
Variance in state government implementation of the Older Americans Act and other federal grantin-aid programs leads policy-makers and scholars to search for means of intervention which can bring...
Interest-Group Liberalism and the Politics of Aging (1972)
The organizations active in the politics of aging, and the aged voter, have their “fair share” of access to power in American national politics, as measured by customary standards. Yet their...
Planning--Facilities, Programs, and Services--Government and Nongovernment (1972)
Beverfelt, Eva, Binstock, Robert H., Crawford, Lawrence, Gokhale, S. D., Huet, J. H., Iyer, P. N., ...