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Community Partnerships for Older Adults

December 8, 2011 | Program Result

Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA) aimed to improve long-term care and supportive systems for vulnerable older adults by fostering collaborative partnerships and building community capacity.

Getting Ready for the Coming "Silver Tsunami" in Maui, Hawaii

December 7, 2011 | Story

Rita Barreras led a community partnership in Maui, Hawaii, to create an infrastructure that allowed older adults to "age in the community" by increasing the caregiver workforce and changing rules to expand long-term-care options.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults

October 29, 2009 | Report

Webcast: Ed Howard moderates a discussion about the issues facing older adults and how community partnerships are working to identify, prioritize, and implement workable solutions to long term care problems.

The Green House Project

September 17, 2012 | Grantee

Developing small community homes as alternatives to nursing homes, this radical, new national model for skilled nursing care returns control, dignity, and a sense of well-being to elders, their families, and direct care staff.

Connecticut Self-Determination for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Pilot Takes Off with "Support Broker" for Mentally Retarded

January 31, 2004 | Program Result

The Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation implemented a pilot project to make changes to its service delivery system to enable persons with mental retardation to choose the services they receive and the setting in which they wish to live.

Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities

June 1, 2004 | Program Result

Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities was designed to foster the development of consumer-directed home and community-based services for people of all ages with chronic disabilities.

Cash & Counseling

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.

Revolutionizing Elder Care

November 1, 2011 | Story

New York Times recognizes Green HouseĀ® model as, "the most comprehensive effort to reinvent the nursing home"

Creating a Revolution in Nursing Homes: Putting Home and Heart In to Long-Term Care

September 26, 2011 | Story

RWJF Celebrates the 100th Green House Home.

Cash & Counseling

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Cash & Counseling is a voluntary and market-based and solution that helps our elderly population plan and budget the services they want and require.

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