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June 11, 2013 | Program Results 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 11, 2013 | Program Results 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 Results 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 Results 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 Results 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.
May 25, 2006 | Program Results 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.
January 31, 2004 | Program Results Report
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.
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.
June 30, 2001 | Program Results Report
SABE fostered collaboration among representatives from its nine regional affiliates, allowing them to share lessons learned in promoting self-determination and in using self-determination as a principle to reform state policy.
December 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Previous studies have shown that self-assessment of future health is a robust predictor of mortality in older adults. This study examines the relationship between 10-year mortality and three self-rated health measures in an aging cohort—current health, health one year in the future and a combined measure of current and future health.