June 11, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
June 7, 2013
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A study co-authored by an RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar finds older patients are routinely prescribed potentially harmful drugs, particularly in the South.
May 29, 2013
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Program Result Report
From 2010 to 2013, Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC) worked with public health groups and design firms to plan 5over50, which will seek to spur older adults to tap five key preventive health services.
April 8, 2013
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Nurse Faculty Scholar puts ‘handymen’ to work turning older people’s homes into safe, healthy environments.
February 26, 2013
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Story
An RWJF-supported study debunks existing research on obesity and mortality. Extra pounds do not help you live longer.
February 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living is a national program to develop affordable models of assisted living, with a focus on smaller and rural communities and low-income seniors.