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Long-Term Services and Supports: Consumers in Charge – Consumer Direction and Money Follows the Person
11/07/2008 | 1473 Requests *
Summary
View the forum session presentations to learn how Arkansas, Texas, and Virginia have created consumer-directed options. They discuss demographics, program details and histories, costs, challenges, and the future. The final presentation goes over Money Follows the Person and Cash and Counseling from the federal level, examining policy, demographics, and outcomes.
Author
O’Shaughnessy, Carol V.; Weiner, Joshua M.; Gold, Marc S.; Sanderson, Herb; Hollowell, Maureen
Available Files
- Session Overview PDF (435K, 9 pages)
- Arkansas Presentation PDF (363K, 5 pages)
- Texas Presentation PDF (752K, 16 pages)
- Virginia Presentation PDF (2,052K, 6 pages)
- National Presentation PDF (548K, 14 pages)
- Speaker Biographies PDF (94K, 3 pages)
- Forum Session Summary Off-site link
Keywords
Long Term Services and Supports; Individualized Budget; Independent Living; Cash and Counseling; Medicaid
Topic
Aging Issues, Consumer/Participant Direction, Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities, Financing HCBS, Long-Term Care, Money Follows the Person, Physical Disabilities, Resource Center, State/Agency Information
Type/Tool
Archived conference materials / Presentations, Data, Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers
Source
National Health Policy Forum
State
Arkansas, Texas, Virginia, All States/Territories
Date Created
03/11/2009
Contact
Carol O'Shaughnessy
Principal Policy Analyst
National Health Policy Forum
coshaugh@gwu.edu
202-872-0239
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* Reflects requests since January 1, 2007