Cash & Counseling
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Cash & Counseling is a voluntary and market-based and solution that helps our elderly population plan and budget the services they want and require.
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Minnesota Faith in Action Project's Long Hours and Struggles Pay Off - For Now
May 31, 2009 | Program Result Report
Pam Determan, the executive director of VINE Faith in Action in Mankato, Minn., had all the right qualifications to lead the project - and it was still a struggle to establish and build the organization.
Service Credit Banking in Managed Care
October 25, 2007 | Program Result Report
Service credit banking programs seek to help elderly people remain healthy, independent, and in their homes by enlisting volunteer caregivers to provide supportive services.
Trying Out a New Model of Caring for People with Dementia
April 11, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Alzheimer's Association and the National Chronic Care Consortium partnered to develop and demonstrate a model of integrated health care and supportive services for people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Faith in Action Projects Receive Awards for Transportation Projects
May 31, 2009 | Program Result Report
Providing rides to a doctor's office, the grocery store and other essential places became one of the central activities of many Faith in Action projects.
Network Coordinates Housing and Medical Services for Disabled and Chronically Ill Adults
June 30, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Corporation for Supportive Housing in Oakland, Calif., developed the Health, Housing and Integrated Services Network, which brought together more than 30 public and private nonprofit agencies.
National Study Looks at Seniors in Assisted Living
March 30, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2002, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health led by Rosalie A. Kane, D.S.W., conducted a national research study of apartment-style assisted living for seniors.
Service Credit Banking
January 1, 2002 | Book
Susan Dentzer explores whether service credit banking--as demonstrated in the projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--was a good idea that was badly timed or implemented, or whether it was simply a flawed idea.
Colorado HMO Launches Time Bank to Provide Health-Related Volunteer Services
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Rocky Mountain Health Maintenance Organization developed and implemented a pilot service-credit-banking program in Mesa County, Colo., called the Time Bank.
Minnesota HMO Matches Healthy Plan Members with Medicare Recipients Needing Help
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Medica Health Plan created the Volunteer Investment Program to match healthy plan member volunteers with Medicare members who required companionship, help with chores, grocery shopping and other special services.