Long-Term Care

This document provides guidance and technical assistance for development of a Person-Centered Planning policy locally, and provides essential elements of a framework for successful implementation of the Person-Centered Planning Process with Medicaid beneficiaries participating in the MI Choice Medicaid Waiver program.

This section of Vermont's program manual provides more information on what allowable budget uses are under the Flexible Choices program and further information about program eligibility.

Intended to provide historical perspective on the federal government's involvement in the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation as an example of the federal role in consumer direction, this article describes how previous research and analysis led to DALTCP's interest in sponsoring this social experiment.

Titled "Communications and Storytelling in Minnesota", this presentation was made by Minnesota grantees at the December 2005 Cash & Counseling Annual Meeting.

Titled "The Faces of Mi Via", this presentation was made by New Mexico's grantees at the December 2005 Cash & Counseling Annual Meeting.

This memo outlines the three provisions in the DRA of 2005 relating to the availability of federal Medicaid funds for the provision on Cash & Counseling and related non-institutional long-term care services to low-income elderly and low-income individuals with disabilities.

This article presents results of a survey of the attitudes and practices of managed care organizations concerning consumer direction. The study focused on understanding several alternative measures of consumer direction and the factors that are associated with the MCOs concerning those measures.

This report synthesizes information from in-person interviews with program staff, a mail survey of program counselors, and telephone interviews with consumers who had the opportunity to receive the program allowance. It also discusses the program's goals and features, how consumers managed their responsibilities under it and made use of its flexibility, and levels of consumer satisfaction with the program.

Review a study was conducted to assess the views of long term care opinion leaders regarding the current state of LTC in the U.S. and potential areas and strategies for reform. This fact sheet provides a quick one page overview of the findings.

An overview of Cash & Counseling including a historical context, the theoretical framework for evaluation, and information on design.