The Effects Of Cash & Counseling On The Primary Informal Caregivers Of Children With Developmental Disabilities
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Summary
This study assesses the effects of consumer direction on the experiences and well-being of the primary informal caregivers of children who participated in Florida's Cash & Counseling demonstration. Instead of Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) waiver benefits, the demonstration program provided a monthly allowance and let parents hire providers and manage the other services and goods their child needed.
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Programs/Initiatives
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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; ASPE; Office of Disability; Aging and Long-Term Care Policy; DALTCP; Covered Benefits; Calculation of the CDC Allowance; Permitted Uses of the Allowance; Consulting and Fiscal Services; Characteristics of Primary Informal Caregivers; Informal Caregivers’ Emotional Well-Being; Benefits Covered by Florida’s Developmental Disabilities Waiver by Type; Treatment-Control Differences
Contact
Elizabeth
Maguire
National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services
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elizabeth.maguire.1@bc.edu
Phone
617-552-0562