Brenda C Spillman

Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute

PhD, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University
MA, University of Missouri-Kansas City
BA, University of Texas, Austin

Dr. Spillman’s research interests include disability trends and long-term care use and financing among the elderly, as well as levels of access to and utilization of health services for nonelderly adults. She has authored reports that project service use and cost for the Medicare elderly, and that examine changes over time in the role of informal caregivers for the disabled elderly.

Email Address
202-261-5846

Related Publications

Freedman VA, Crimmins EM, Schoeni RF, Spillman BC, Aykan H, Kramarow E, Land K, Lubitz J, Manton KG, Martin LG, Shinberg D, Waidmann TA. 2004. Resolving Inconsistencies in Trends in Old-Age Disability: Report From a Technical Working Group. Demography 41(3):417-41.

Spillman BC. 2004. Changes in Elderly Disability Rates and the Implications for Health Care Utilization and Cost. The Milbank Quarterly 82(1):157-194.

Spillman BC, Liu K, and McGilliard C. 2002. Trends in Residential Long Term Care: Use of Nursing Homes and Assisted Living and Characteristics of Facilities and Residents. (with Korbin Liu and Cary McGilliard. Report to the Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Aging and Long-Term Care Policy.)

Spillman BC, Lubitz J. 2002. New Estimates of Lifetime Nursing Home Use: Have Patterns of Use Changed? Medical Care 40(10):965-975.

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Spillman BC, and Pezzin LE. 2000. Potential and Active Family Caregivers: Changing Networks and the ‘Sandwich’ Generation. The Milbank Quarterly 78(3):347-374.

Spillman BC, Lubitz J. 2000. The Effect of Longevity on Spending for Acute and Long-Term Care. New England Journal of Medicine 342(19):1409-1415.