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New Mexico Gives Older and Other People With Disabilities Control and Choice Through Participant-Directed Services

June 11, 2013 | 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.

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.

Lessons Learned: Sustainability of Partners in Caregiving - The Adult Day Services Program

May 25, 2006 | Program Result 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.

Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities

June 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

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.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults

December 8, 2011 | Program Result Report

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.

Pilot Program Trains Certified Home Health Aides to Provide Nursing Care to Patients at Home

October 4, 2011 | Program Result Report

Under the state of New Jersey's Nurse Delegation Pilot Program, registered nurses delegated specific health care tasks performed in the homes of some Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities or chronic conditions to certified home health aides.

New State Strategies to Meet Long-Term Care Needs

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.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults

National Program

To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.

Adult Day Centers

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.

The Program on Chronic Mental Illness

January 1, 2000 | Book

This chapter of the Anthology takes a look at the Program on Chronic Mental Illness a national program designed to better coordinate mental illness care services for people with chronic mental illness.

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