Reports

The District of Columbia is seeking to expand the availability of home and community-based services (HCBS) for the aged and adults with physical disabilities.The Disability and Aging Resource Center will represent a cost to the District in the immediate short-term, however the Center is expected to have cumulative savings by FY 2005. This file is a complete fiscal impact statement for this project.

This report summarizes information gathered and analyzed during State One of Contract #3353, the feasabillity study for providing access to health insurance for Personal Care Workers in the state of Vermont.

This report chronicles New Jersey's experience in order to assist policymakers in other states who need to meet their older adults' preferences for long-term care and, at the same time, to develop sustainable services and systems. Included is information on reforms to the long-term care system, stakeholder involvement, what successes arose, and what challenges remain. The report also makes recommendations for current New Jersey officials,policymakers, and their counterparts in other states.

This report is a product of collaboration between HHS and DOL in response to the requests from the U.S. Congress. Staff at these Departments worked collaboratively to share information and data pertaining to direct care workers in long-term care settings and to develop a joint set of recommendations for the future. This report includes information on informal caregivers, direct care workers, and paraprofessional direct services workers.

In this report, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) traces the budget issues that states confronted in 2002 and examines how they addressed those issues. The report also describes long-term care legislation enacted in 2002 and long-term care planning work that is under way in many states.

Presentation on Transitioning Non Elderly People with Disabilities from the Nursing Home to the Community for NFT.

A presentation of Utah's current activities to promote community integration and choices for long term care consumers.

The National Council on Disability (NCD) assesses the nation's response to the United States Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999) that the unjustified institutionalization of people with disabilities is a form of discrimination.

The question “How do we know cultural competence when we see it?” prompted HRSA to sponsor a project to develop indicators of cultural competence in health care delivery organizations. The tool is intended to 1)develop an analytic framework for assessing cultural competence in health care delivery organizations; 2)identify specific indicators that can be used in connection with this framework; and 3) assess utility, feasibility and practical application of the framework and its indicators.

This report presents the findings of a survey of the 50 states and the District of Columbia conducted by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy/NASHP Community Living Exchange Collaborative to identify states that operate single entry point (SEP) systems and to describe the characteristics of SEPs.