Transforming Primary Care
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Care Plus is an alternative structure of the medical home model that would improve health and lower costs, particularly for the frail elderly population.
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Baltimore Elderly in "Safe at Home" Program Experience Fewer Falls, Better Health
February 21, 2007 | Program Result
A research team from Johns Hopkins University conducted an evaluation of Safe at Home - a program that provided a coordinated set of services to help the low-income elderly continue living in their own homes.
Promoting Consumer Choice and Innovative Financing Models
June 1, 2007 | Issue Brief
This issue brief provides an overview of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's 25-year commitment in the area of long-term care, and highlights some of its major initiatives.
How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers
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.
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.
How Does Cash and Counseling Affect Costs?
February 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This research examines Cash and Counseling's effects on the costs and uses of Medicaid's personal care services or home and community-based waiver services effects on other Medicaid costs and effects on total Medicaid costs.
Developing and Implementing Self-Direction Programs and Policies
February 27, 2009 | Toolkit
This handbook explains how states can increase program participants' choice of and control over their services and supports.
The MOM Program Shown to Have Positive Effects on Children at Age 5
September 29, 2008 | Program Result
Starting in 2001, researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia conducted the MOM Program to determine whether providing mothers with support could improve their children's development and behavior.
Consumer Choice in Long-Term Care
January 1, 2002 | Book
An examination of the Foundation's consumer choice programs and preliminary lessons learned from each.
Training Hispanic Home Health Aides Provides Health Care - and Jobs
January 29, 2002 | Program Result
The Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey, located in Camden, N.J., developed the Community Health Group program.