Pulling Together: Administrative and Budget Consolidation of State Long-Term Care Services
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Summary
Can agency consolidation bring about consistent policymaking and focus long term care services on persons with disabilities rather than on program providers? This AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper provides readers with an examination of a consolidated agency approach, by studying agency structure, reviewing the arguments for consolidation, and the barriers to achieving it. It also reviews several states accomplishing consolidation and a checklist of steps towards such a model.
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consolidated state LTC agency; global budgeting; single point of entry;
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