The Effects Of Cash & Counseling On The Primary Informal Caregivers Of Children With Developmental Disabilities

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Article Publication Date: 
4/20/2005
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.
Article Author: 
Foster, Leslie; Brown, Randall; Phillips, Barbara; Lepidus Carlson, Barbara
Topics: 
Consumer/Participant Direction
Types/Tools: 
Reports; Assessments
Populations: 
Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Direct Care Workforce
Sources: 
NRCPDS
Programs/Initiatives: 
Cash and Counseling
States: 
All States/Territories; Florida
Keywords: 
Expenditures; Wages and Benefits; Eligibility; Enrollment
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
elizabeth.maguire.1@bc.edu
Phone: 
617-552-0562

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/52215