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Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction on Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas

08/23/2005 | Requests *

Summary

This paper assesses the effect of consumer-directed care on the emotional, physical, and financial well-being of the primary informal caregivers of the Medicaid beneficiaries who voluntarily joined Arkansas's Cash and Counseling demonstration. The implications of the demonstration find that permitting interested Medicaid beneficiaries to direct their own in-home supportive services reduces burden on informal caregivers, which may help reduce beneficiaries' nursing home use.

Author

Foster, Leslie; Brown, Randall; Phillips, Barbara; Lepidus Carlson, Barbara

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Keywords

Cash and Counseling; Medicaid; Family Caregivers; in-home supportive services

Topic

Aging Issues, Consumer Direction, Long-Term Care, Physical Disabilities

Type/Tool

Data, Reports, Research abstracts

Source

The Gerontologist

State

Arkansas, All States/Territories

Date Created

08/23/2005

Contact

Randall Brown
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
P.O. Box 2393
Princeton, NJ 08543

rbrown@mathematica-mpr.com

Short URL

www.hcbs.org/moreInfo.php/doc/1357

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