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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.
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.
September 1, 2011 | Program Result
To combat isolation and loneliness among vulnerable individuals, including the disabled and frail elderly, the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship and Tyze Personal Networks promoted Web-based social support networks called Tyze.
National Program
To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.
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.
October 8, 2009 | Story
Residents of the Tohono O'odham Nation had to leave the reservation if they needed skilled nursing care until Frances Stout helped establish the first skilled-care facility for aging Native Americans on the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
National Program
Program to provide grant support, technical assistance, and loan funds to states to create affordable models of assisted living targeted to low-income seniors and linked with existing community health care systems.
June 22, 2004 | Program Result
The National Association of State Units on Aging designed and tested a tool and process that allow states the opportunity to evaluate the extent to which they offer consumers opportunities to make choices and direct their own health care and support services.
August 1, 2004 | Program Result
Starting in early 2001, Arkansas developed a model of affordable assisted living - The Gardens at Osage Terrace - a 45-unit facility in Bentonville, Ark.
August 13, 2004 | Program Result
Vermont developed a model of affordable assisted living - Cathedral Square Senior Living in Burlington, Vt. - that has 80 units of independent living and 28 units of assisted living.