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Judith Kasper
Professor
Academic Degrees
PhD
Departmental Affiliation
Health Policy and Management
Health Services Research
Departmental Address
Rm 641, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore MD 21205
Phone: 410-614-4016
Fax: 410-955-0470
Research and Professional Experience

Dr. Kasper's research and teaching interests include health policy in disability and long-term care; assessment of needs for care and service provision to physically and mentally disabled people; health care financing and access for vulnerable populations; and the development and application of data sources -- national surveys in particular -- for health policy analysis and health services research. She has published in numerous journals in the fields of health policy, health service research, and aging.

Keywords

Health Policy and Management, disability, long-term care, aging, dementia, access to care, survey research

Honors and Awards

Delta Omega Honorary Society for Public Health, Alpha Chapter, Elected to membership 2001

Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award (AMTRA), Student Assembly of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 2000

Student Coordinating Committee Faculty Award, Dept. of Health Policy and Management, 2000

Selected Publications

Thorpe, R., J. Kasper, S. Szanton, K. Frick, L. Fried, and E. Simonsick. 2008. The relationship of Race And Poverty to Lower Extremity Function and Decline: Findings from the Women's Health and Aging Study. Social Science & Medicine 66(4): 811-821.

Kasper, J.D., B. Lyons and M. O'Malley. 2007. Long-term Services and Supports: The Future Role and Challenges for Medicaid. At http://www.kff.org

Wolff, J., J.D. Kasper, and A. Shore. Forthcoming. Long-term Care Preferences Among Older Adults: A Moving Target? J of Aging and Social Policy. 2008: 20(2).

Wolff, J., S.M. Dy, K.D. Frick, and J.D. Kasper. 2007. End-of-Life Care: Findings from a National Survey of Informal Caregivers. Arch Intern Med 167:40-46

Ng, J., J. D. Kasper, C. Forrest, and A. Bierman. 2007. Predictors of Voluntary Disenrollment from Medicare Managed Care. Medical Care 45(6):513-520.

Wolff, J. and J.D. Kasper. 2006. Caregivers of Frail Elders: Updating a National Profile. The Gerontologist 46(3):344-356.

Komisar, H.L., J. Feder and J.D. Kasper. 2005. Unmet Long-Term Care Needs: An Analysis of Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles. Inquiry 42(2): 171-182.

Niefeld, M. and J.D. Kasper. 2005. Access to Ambulatory Medical and Long-Term Care Services Among Elderly Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries: Organizational, Financial and Geographic Barriers. Medical Care Research and Review 62:300-319.

Lau, D.T., J.D. Kasper, D.E.B. Potter, A. Lyles, and R.B. Bennett. 2005. Hospitalization and Death Associated with Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions among Elderly Nursing Home Residents. Archives of Internal Medicine 164: 68-74.

Lau, D.T., J.D. Kasper, D.E.B. Potter, and A. Lyles. 2004. Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions among Elderly Nursing Home Residents: Its Scope and Associated Resident and Facility Characteristics. Health Services Research 39(5):1257-1276.

Fredman, L., S. Tennstedt, K.A. Smyth, J. D. Kasper, B. Miller, T. Fritsch, M. Watson, E.L. Harris. 2004. Pragmatic and Validity Issues in Sampling in Caregiver Studies: a Comparison of Population-based, Registry-based and Ancillary studies. J of Aging and Health 16(2):175-203.

Chan, D., J.D. Kasper, B. Black and P.V. Rabins. 2003. Presence of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms Predicts Nursing Home Placement in Community-Dwelling Elders with Cognitive Impairment in Univariate but not Multivariate Analysis. J of Gerontology: Medical Sciences June 58(6): M548-54.

Black, B.S., J.D. Kasper, J. Brandt, A.D. Shore, P. German, L. Burton, J.J. Gallo, C. Lyketsos and P.V. Rabins. 2003. Identifying Dementia in High-Risk Community Samples: The Memory and Medical Care Study. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders 17(1): 9-18.

Hanson. K., P. Neuman, D. Dutwin, and J. Kasper. 2003. Uncovering the Health Challenges Facing People with Disabilities: The Role of Health Insurance. Health Affairs Web Exclusive www.healthaffairs.org

Witt, W.P., J.D. Kasper, and A.W. Riley. 2003. Mental Health Services Use Among School-aged Children with Disabilities: the Role of Socio-demographics, Functional Limitations, Family Burdens and Care Coordination. Health Services Research 38(6): 1441–1466.

Pezzin, L. and J.D. Kasper. 2002. "Medicaid Enrollment among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: Individual Determinants, Effects of State Policy, and Impact on Service Use." Health Services Research, 37(4):827-847.

Kasper, J.D. and L. Burton. 2001. Demography of Aging. In Geriatrics Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine published by The American Geriatrics Society. New York, NY.

Simonsick, E., J.D. Kasper, J.M. Guralnik, K. Bandeen-Roche, L. Ferrucci, R. Hirsch, S. Leveille, T. Rantanen and L.P. Fried. 2001. "Severity of Upper and Lower Extremity Functional Limitation: Scale Development and Validation with Self-Report and Performance-Based Measures of Physical Function." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 91(1): 68-75.

Kasper, J.D. 2000. "Health-Care Utilization and Barriers to Health Care" In G. Albrecht, R. Fitzpatrick, and S. Scrimshaw (eds.) The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. Sage Publications Ltd., London, England.

Penninx, B.W.J.H., J.M. Guralnik, K. Bandeen-Roche, L.P. Fried, J.D. Kasper, E.M. Simonsick, and L. Ferrucci. 2000. "Protective Effect of Emotional Vitality on Adverse Health Outcomes in Disabled Older Women." J Am Geriatrics Society, 48(11): 1359-1366.

Kasper, J.D., T. Giovannini, and C. Hoffman. 2000. "Gaining and Losing Health Insurance: Strengthening the Evidence for Effects on Access to Care and Health." Medical Care Research and Review, 57(3): 298-318.

Kasper, J.D., A. Shore and B.W.J.H. Penninx. 2000. "Caregiving Arrangements of Elderly Disabled Women, Caregiving Preferences, and Views on Adequacy of Care." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, Special Issue on Women and Aging, 12(2):141-153.

Kasper, J.D. 1999. "Evaluating Medicare and Medicaid: The Yield in Information from the National Medical Expenditure Surveys" In A. Monheit, R. Wilson and R. Arnett (eds.) Informing American Health Care Policy: The Dynamics of Medical Expenditure and Insurance Surveys, 1977-1996. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.

Kasper, J.D., S. Shapiro, J.M. Guralnik, K. Bandeen-Roche and L.P. Fried. 1999. "Designing a Community Study of Moderately to Severely Disabled Older Women: The Women's Health and Aging Study." Annals of Epidemiology 9(8):498-507.

Guralnik, J.M., L. Ferrucci, B.W.J.H. Penninx, J.D. Kasper, S.G. Leveille, K. Bandeen-Roche and L.P. Fried. 1999. "New and Worsening Conditions and Change in Physical and Cognitive Performance During Weekly Evaluations Over Six Months: The Women=s Health and Aging Study." Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 54A(8):M410-M422.

Rabins, P.V., J.D. Kasper, L. Kleinman, B. Black and D. Patrick. 1999. "Concepts and Methods in the Development of the ADRQL: An Instrument for Assessing Health-related Quality of Life in Persons with Alzheimer Disease." Journal of Mental Health and Aging 5(1):33-48.

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