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December 17, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
For many patients living with chronic illness, it’s those who help patients care for themselves who may make the difference between successfully and unsuccessfully coping with complex self-management regimens.
February 1, 2010 | Report
A 2010 update of the RWJF’s 2002 chartbook, Chronic Care: Making the Case for Ongoing Care examines the impact of chronic conditions on individuals and their caregivers, as well as the inadequacies of the U.S. health care system to meet their needs.
July 1, 2005 | Report
This report estimates the effects of Cash & Counseling on the caregivers who were providing the most unpaid assistance to adult beneficiaries, when those beneficiaries volunteered to participate in the demonstration and completed a baseline interview.
September 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center planned and implemented a comprehensive, coordinated service system to address the medical and social needs of chronically ill children and their families in New Hampshire.
January 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Statewide directors of Parent to Parent programs, representing the national Parent to Parent movement, investigated the possibility of creating a formal partnership between the Parent to Parent movement and the Grassroots Consortium on Disabilities.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Maine Medical Center found that diabetes patients who had family members participate with them in a six-week chronic disease self-management group did not improve their blood sugar control, contrary to expectations.
March 30, 2004 | Program Result Report
The Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research, under the direction of Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D. and Jessica Miller, Ph.D., studied how private long-term care insurance affects the level and mix of formal and informal services used.
February 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Researchers at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service profiled the health care needs of caregiving grandparents and the resources available to them.
January 1, 2000 | Book
Since 1987, RWJF has supported a series of programs to test the usefulness of adult day care and then to promote its replication. This chapter presents a history of the three distinct investments made by the Foundation on this topic.
September 1, 1997 | Program Result Report
The University of Florida School of Medicine surveyed families and health care providers of chronically ill children to determine what services would be needed and how they should be provided in a model residential treatment facility.