State/Agency Information

The Lewin Group under contract with Wisconsin's Legislative Audit Bureau examined the implementation, early outcomes, and cost effectiveness of the restructuring of Wisconsin’s long-term care system for the elderly, the physically disabled, and the developmentally disabled. The report offers key-findings based on over the past few years evaluation.

This document highlights the lessons learned from WI's nine counties that have operated ADRCs since 1999. Information is provided on short term case management, information and assessment, and outreach and marketing.

This matrix provides an overview of selected short term case management tools used by aging and other human service agencies. It contains descriptions of informational elements, format, targeted populations and staff training.

This is an overview of selected screening and referral tools used by aging and other human service agencies. It contains descriptions of informational elements, format, targeted populations and staff training.

Richland County, Wisconsin created a manual detailing procedures for handling information and referral calls to their Aging and Disabilties Resource Center. The 12 page flip chart guide contains information on greeting callers, assessing for emergency, plan of action and post call work.

This letter was written by the director of Home and Community Services in Louisiana to local organizations asking them to nominate a staff person to the ADRC advisory board.

Two presentations from the South Carolina Planning Retreat in January 2004 can be found here. A presentation by Susan Reinhard, of the Community Living Exchange Collaborative, focuses on ADRC purpose, goals, and system issues. A presentation by Karen Linkins and Sharon Zeruld, TAE, focuses on national vision and expectations for ADRCs.

These are the notes from the TAE Monthly Grantee Teleconference on Pennsylvania's Streamlined Eligibility that was held on April 1, 2004. The call focused on the state's reform of long term care, specifically the Community Choice Program.

The Lewin Group under contract with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) examined the efficiency of the Older Adults Medicaid Waiver for Home and Community Based Services and developmental steps for a single entry point system.

States have used a variety of techniques to combat the rising costs of prescriptions, especially for psychotropic medications. This paper notes that it is important to consider alternatives that have the potential to both contain costs and improve the quality of care and outcomes. The paper provides some examples of promising practices from Pennsylvania, Missouri, Texas, and Massachusetts.