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June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report
Kentucky launched Consumer Directed Option, giving disabled Medicaid recipients choice and control over their personal assistance services, including hiring workers and purchasing assistive devices, through the Cash & Counseling national program.
June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report
Minnesota increased enrollment of frail older disabled Medicaid recipients in Consumer Directed Community Supports, giving them choice and control over their personal assistance services, through the Cash & Counseling national program.
June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report
New Mexico launched Mi Via (“my path,” “my way,” “my road”), giving disabled Medicaid recipients control over their personal assistance services, including hiring workers and buying assistive devices, through the Cash & Counseling national program.
June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report
Pennsylvania launched Services My Way, which gives some Medicaid recipients with disabilities choice and control over their personal assistance services through the Cash & Counseling national program.
June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Cash & Counseling program created a cost-effective model of participant-directed services to improve the health of frail older adults and other people with disabilities and contributed to national policy change on participant-directed services.
August 1, 2007 | Evaluation
This report summarizes the findings from five years of research by Mathematica Policy Research, on how each of the three demonstration states (Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey) implemented its program, and on how the programs have affected the consumers who participated, the consumers' paid and unpaid caregivers, and the costs to Medicaid.
May 25, 2006 | Program Result Report
The report provides information on the three phases of the program and then describes the work of the Partners in Caregiving national program office in the post-RWJF funding period as it has achieved financial self-sufficiency.
February 1, 2004 | Journal Article
While geriatric research has traditionally focused on the diseases and disabilities of old age, recent attention has focused on maintaining well-being. Resilience - defined as the capacity to remain well, recover, or even thrive in the face of adver ...
June 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies examined the relative cost-effectiveness of different housing configurations for people with chronic mental illness. They also looked at the relationship between housing and neighborhood features and client outcomes (such as costs of care and length of time at one residence).
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Consumer-directed long-term care service programs give participants the flexibility they want, while reducing unmet need for home and community-based services and supports. Their experiences offer valuable insights, guidance and encouragement to other states contemplating consumer-directed service expansions.