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

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Article Publication Date: 
8/23/2005
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.
Article Author: 
Foster, Leslie; Brown, Randall; Phillips, Barbara; Lepidus Carlson, Barbara
Sources: 
The Gerontologist
Programs/Initiatives: 
Cash and Counseling
Keywords: 
Long-Term Care
in-home supportive services

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Randall Brown
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
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Princeton, NJ 08543
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