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The applicability of the ADA to personal assistance in the workplace.
The California Working Disabled Program: Lessons learned, looking ahead,
Estimating paid and unpaid hours of personal assistance services in activities of daily living provided to adults living at home.
Unmet need for personal assistance services: Estimating the shortfall in hours of help and adverse consequences.
Consumer direction in personal assistance services: How to work together
Employer perception of need when hiring and retaining people with disabilities,
Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Waivers: A National Survey of Eligibility Criteria, Caps and Waiting Lists.
Medicaid Community-Based Programs: A Longitudinal Analysis of State Variation in Expenditures and Utilization
Promoting community integration: Barriers and best practices from seven state recipients of Olmstead planning grants.
Medicaid Buy-In: Concept and implementation
Promising practices: Home and community-based services for the elderly and people with disabilities
The Americans with Disabilities Act and community integration: An update on "Fundamental Alteration" litigation.
Olmstead: reclaiming institutionalized lives
State Long-Term Care: Recent Developments and Policy Directions 2003 Update
The States response to the Olmstead decision: How are states complying?
Is community care a civil right? The unfolding saga of the Olmstead decision
Introduction to Olmstead Lawsuits and Olmstead Plans.
Hospitalizations among female home-helpers in Denmark, 1981-1997.
Direct care workforce challenges: Improving the recruitment and retention of workers who provide direct support to persons with disabilities.
Work-system risk factors for permanent work disability among home-care workers: a case-control study.
Working in clients' homes: the impact on the mental health and well-being of visiting home care workers.
Job stress and job dissatisfaction of home care workers in the context of health care restructuring.
Pre-employment intentions of home care aides.
Profile of home care aides, nursing home aides, and hospital aides: Historical changes and data recommendations
Changes in the work and motivation of staff delivering home care services in Finland.
Recruiting immigrants for long-term care nursing positions.
The direct care worker: the third rail of home care policy.
Licensing and training requirements for direct care workers in Japan: what can the United States and Japan learn from each other?
Who will care? The recruitment and retention of community care (aged and disability) workers.
Health insurance coverage for direct care workers: Riding out the storm.
Providing health insurance to IHSS providers (home care workers) in Los Angeles County.
Issues in the direct support workforce and their connections to the growth, sustainability and quality of community supports.
The impact of a large wage increase on the workforce stability of IHSS homecare workers in San Francisco County.
Nursing Aides, Home Health Aides, and Related Health Care Occupations -- National and Local Workforce Shortages and Associated Data Needs.
Why workforce development should be part of the long-term care quality debate.
Summary of the first annual report of the Topss England Workforce Intelligence Unit, 2003.
The future supply of long-term care workers in relation to the aging baby boom generation.
Consumer-directed home care in the Netherlands, England, and Germany.
California can save over a hundred million a year by amending the State Plan to cover domestic and related services under the Medi-Cal personal care services program
Federal Systems Change Grants to States and Territories: 2001-2005
Nursing Home Transition: Implementing the Program Providing Assistance to Caregivers in Transition (PACT)
Lost-worktime injuries and illnesses of Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants
Home and Personal Care Workers by State
Personal Assistance Services (PAS) in the Workplace
Workers affected by chronic conditions: How can workplace policies and programs help?
SSA's disability demonstration projects likely to provide important information about disability work incentives.
California's In-Home Supportive Services program: Who is served?
Smoke Without Fire: Nursing Facility Closures, 1997-2001.
Explaining the Diffusion of Medicaid Home Care Waiver Programs Using VPRS Decision Rules.
A nationwide study of deinstitutionalization & community integration: A special report of the public policy and legal advocacy programs Equip for Equality, Illinois.
Consumer directed health care: How well does it work?
Olmstead at five: Assessing the impact
Workforce Development Projects in Personal Assistance Services.
Report on California's Nursing Homes, Home Health Agencies, and Hospice Programs Prepared for the California HealthCare Foundation for California Nursing Home Search - www.calnhs.org.
Using workplace personal assistance to improve recruiting and retention
Employment Personal Assistance Services (EPAS): Focus group report on program awareness and needs.
The Medicaid Buy-In Program: Quantitative measures of enrollment trends and participant characteristics in 2002.
Medicaid Buy-In Programs: Case studies of early implementer states.
Home and Community-Based Services: Medicaid Research and Demonstration Waivers.
Home and Community-Based Service Programs: Selected Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grants to States.
Home and Community-Based Services: Federal Funding to States
Home & Community-Based Services: State-Only Funded Programs
Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Data, 2004.
The experiences of workers hired under consumer direction in Arkansas.
The state of the states in family caregiver support: A 50-state study.
Keeping workers covered: Employer-provided health insurance benefits in the developmental disabilities field.
Consumer-directed services at home: A new model for persons with disabilities.
Work-life differences and outcomes for agency and consumer-directed home care workers.
Workforce needs in California's healthcare system.
Consumer directed home care: Effects on family caregivers.
Improving the quality of Medicaid personal assistance through consumer direction.
Survey of Californians about in-home care services.
Bridging the gap between the needs of clients and the skills of the workforce in Oregon.
Congruence between disabled elders and their primary caregivers.
Measuring the years: State aging trends and indicators.
Caregiving and retirement planning: What happens to family caregivers who leave the workforce
A new typology of home-care helpers.
The role of training in improving the recruitment and retention of direct-care workers in long-term care.
A profile of family caregivers: Results of the California statewide survey of caregivers.
Consumer-directed community care: Race/ethnicity and individual differences in preferences for control.
The cost of frontline turnover in long-term care.
Long-term care: Consumer directed services under Medicaid.
Perceived need for workplace accommodation and labor-force participation in Canadian adults with activity limitations
"Common sense and patience: Arlene's story."
Intermediary service organizations providing personal assistance services: Implementing lessons
Innovations in 33 states that address the respite worker crisis: Lessons from the ADDGS program.
"From Precarious Workers to Unionized Employees and Back Again?: The Challenges of Organizing Personal-Care Workers in Ontario
Access for all: A resource manual for meeting the needs of One-Stop customers with disabilities.
Advice report to Congress and the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration: The crisis in EN participation a blueprint for action.
In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) in the workplace
Barriers to and supports for work among adults with disabilities: Results from the NHIS-D.
Building work incentives using Section 1902(r)(2) of the Medicaid statute.
Consumer choice and control: Personal attendant services and supports in America. Report of the Blue Ribbon Panel on personal assistance services.
Consumer advocacy in the implementation of the Ticket to Work Act.
Creating financial incentives to serve partial benefit recipients in the Ticket to Work program.
Doing it the company way: Employer perspectives on workplace supports.
Economic engagement: An avenue to employment for individuals with disabilities.
The effectiveness of Medicaid Buy-In programs in promoting the employment of people with disabilities: Briefing paper prepared for the: Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel
Employers' attitudes toward hiring persons with disabilities and vocational rehabilitation services
Employer attitudes toward workers with disabilities and their ADA employment rights: A literature review
Enrollment patterns and medical expenditures for Medicaid Buy-In participants in five states
Employment Personal Assistance Services (EPAS) evaluation report.
Evaluation of the Ticket to Work program: Initial evaluation report.
An evolving partnership: The role of state vocational rehabilitation agencies in the implementation of the Ticket to Work program.
Explaining enrollment trends and participant characteristics of the Medicaid Buy-In program, 2002-2003.
Exploring personal assistance services for people with psychiatric disabilities
A health-conscious safety net? Health problems and program use among low-income adults with disabilities.
Identification of the characteristics of work environments and employers open to hiring and accommodating people with disabilities
The impact of the current employment policy environment on the self-determination of individuals with disabilities
The impact of earnings of Nebraskans with disabilities on their eligibility for selected services and programs.
MaineCare enrollees with disabilities work experience: Results from a 2002 survey.
MaineCare Personal Assistance Services in the workplace.
Medicaid Buy-In options: Helping persons with severe disabilities and chronic conditions to work.
Minnesota's 2003 PCA consumer survey.
New Freedom Initiative: A progress report.
Outcomes from the consumer survey of the Utah Benefits Planning Assistance and Outreach Program.
Overview of MBI for working individuals with disabilities.
Personal assistance services for workers with disabilities: Case studies.
Personal assistance in the workplace: A customer-directed guide.
Personal assistance services on the job.(InfoBrief Issue 6).
Personal assistance services study: Report of findings.
Proceedings of the Employment Network (EN) summit: Summary of work group recommendations.
People with disabilities: Strengthening the 21st century workforce.
Research on employment supports for people with disabilities: Summary of the focus group findings.
The role of health insurance in successful labor force entry and employment retention.
The role of supports in successful labor force entry for youth with disabilities.
Serving people with disabilities through the Workforce Investment Act's One-Stop Career Centers.
"Show me the money": Flexible funding for job success.
SSDI state work incentive policy demonstration projects: Purposes, principles, and issues.
State Medicaid options that support the employment of people with disabilities.
Medicaid and Ticket to Work: States' early efforts to cover working individuals with disabilities
The Ticket to Work Program: Marketing strategies and techniques to enhance implementation.
Inside employment networks.
Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel (2004). Annual report to the President and Congress: Year Four
Understanding the differences between worksite personal assistance services (PAS) and personal PAS on the job: Why this is important to rehabilitation?
Using Medicaid to cover the uninsured: Medicaid participant Buy-In programs
Using PAS service in Vermont to support employment-Part One: Current programs, promising practices and next steps for study.
Using PAS service in Vermont to support employment-Part Two: Gaps in current programs and possible remedies.
Using PAS service in Vermont to support employment-Part Three: Eligibility, services, utilization, and costs.
Workforce Investment Act: Labor has taken several actions to facilitate access to one-stops for persons with disabilities, but these efforts may not be sufficient.
Restricted access: A survey of employers about people with disabilities and lowering barriers to work
Workplace accommodations for people with disabilities: National Interview Survey Disability Supplement 1994-1995.
Workplace personal assistance service and assistive technology
State's experiences implementing consumer-directed home and community services: Results of the 2004 survey of state administrators, opinion survey and telephone interviews.
Care Work: The Quest for Security. Geneva: International Labour Office
Easing the burden of caregiving: The impact of consumer direction on primary informal caregivers in Arkansas.
Long-term care: Consumer-directed services Under Medicaid.
Living quarters and unmet need for personal care assistance among adults with disabilities.
Long Term Care Staff and Quality of Care
Trends in the supply of long-term-care facilities and beds in the United States.
Discharge planning, nursing home placement, and the internet
Direct care worker associations and public authorities.
Across the states: Profiles of Long-Term Care 2004.
Consumer-directed health care: How well does it work?
Security without Flexibility: Personal Care Workers and People with Disabilities in Ontario.
Nursing facilities, staffing, residents, and facility deficiencies, 1998 through 2004.
Long-term care quality: Historical overview and current initiatives
Snapshot: California's Fragile Nursing Home Industry.
Department of Public Health 2005 report: Its effectiveness as an integrated health care delivery system and provider of a continuum of long term care services
Medicaid Home And Community-Based Services: National Program Trends
California Statewide Independent Living Needs Assessment 2003-2004.
All 50 states' and D.C.'s home pages and Workers' Compensation agencies.
The emergence of self-managed attendant services in Ontario: Direct funding pilot project. An independent living model for Canadians requiring attendant services
Performance standards for Medi-Cal care organizations serving people with disabilities and chronic conditions.
Medicaid Waiver Programs for Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury.
Young adult caregivers: A first look at an unstudied population.
Young caregivers in the U.S.: Findings from national survey.
Homecare workers experiences of and responses to occupational injury: Preliminary results from a qualitative study.
Impact of coping skills intervention with family caregivers of hospice patients with cancer
Developing a better long-term care policy: A vision and strategy for America 's future.
The state of 21st century long-term services and supports: Financing and systems reform for Americans with disabilities.
Developing new strategies to support future caregivers of the aged in Canada: Projections of need and their policy implications.
Implementation of the National Family Caregiver Support Program: How has caregiver service use changed in California?
Bloodborne pathogen exposure in non-hospital based nurses.
Impact of employment on caregiver and care recipient service use.
Focus groups of union home care workers and blood exposure.
Demanding work schedules and mental health in nursing assistants working in nursing homes
Home care security: Nurses can take simple precautions to ensure safety during home visits
Nurse's inclination to report work-related injuries: Organization, work-group and individual factors associated with reporting
Work organization, area labor-market characteristics, and depression among U.S. nursing home workers: a cross-classified multilevel analysis
Using state administrative data to study nonfatal worker injuries: Challenges and opportunities
The consequences of flexible work for health: Are we looking at the right place?
Injuries in home health care workers: An analysis of occupational morbidity from a state compensation database.
Finding dignity in dirty work: The constraints and rewards of low-wage home care labour
Why personal assistant staff leave: Factors that increase turnover.
Translating research into practice: Speeding the adoption of innovative health care programs
Response to improving communication between researchers and policy makers in long term care: Or researchers are from Mars; Policy makers are from Venus Reply
Unmet desire for caregiver-patient communication and increased caregiver burden
Challenged to care: Informal caregivers in a changing health system
Stand up and tell them: Views from the frontline of long-term care.
Abuse and neglect of clients in agency-based and consumer-directed home care
"Intent to stay" among paid home care workers in California
A profile of home care workers from the 2005 Census: How it changes what we know
The experiences and challenges of informal caregivers: Common themes and differences among whites, blacks and Hispanics
When the caregiver needs care: The plight of vulnerable caregivers
Informal caregiving - Differential experiences by gender
Staffing and worker injury in nursing homes
Consumer's and family caregiver's perspectives on community-based homecare and welfare services: A acceptable alternative for residential care?
Availability of caregiver support services: Implications of the National family Caregiver Support Program
Organizing home care: Low-waged workers in the welfare state
Demanding quality: Worker/consumer coalitions and "High Road" strategies in the care sector
Caring about caring labor: An introduction
Culture change management in long-term care: A shop-floor view
What can we expect from paid carers?
Nursing Homes: Despite increased oversight, challenges remain in ensuring high-quality care and resident safety
Recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse long-term family caregivers for research.
Societal and individual determinants of medical care utilization in the United States.
Racial and ethnic disparities in the outcomes of elderly home care recipients.
Policy update. Aged care in Australia: Past, present and future.
Depression and caregiver burden among rural elder caregivers.
Elderly and disabled waiver services: Important dimensions of personal care from the client's perspective.
Partnership working by default: District nurses and care home staff providing care for older people.
Impact of the Medicare interim payment system on length of use in home care among patients with Medicare-only payment source.
The role of home care in palliative care services.
Caregiving and post-caregiving experiences of midlife and older gay men and lesbians.
An international review of the long-term care workforce: Policies and shortages.
Building on the benefits: Assessing satisfaction and well-being in elder care.
Unmet patient need in home care under managed care.
Changes in Medicare home health care use and practices in rural communities.
Understanding the racial and ethnic differences in caregiving arrangements.
Cultural attitudes and caregivers service use: Lessons from focus groups with racially and ethnically diverse family caregivers.
Flexible client-driven in-home case management: An option to consider.
According to need? Predicting the amount of municipal home help allocated to elderly recipients in an urban area of Sweden.
Patterns in home care use in Manitoba
Support workers in intermediate care.
Regional variation in home care use in Manitoba
The cultures of caregiving: Conflict and common ground among families, health, professionals, and policy makers. (Book review).
Grief reactions and depression in caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease: Results from a pilot study in an urban setting.
Marker of older widows' trust of nonprofessional home-care helpers.
Cultural attitudes and caregivers service use: Lessons from focus groups with racially and ethnically diverse family caregivers.
Care receiver and caregiver assessments of functioning: Are there gender differences?
Penny wise, pound wise: A comparison of Medicaid expenditures for home and community-based services versus nursing facility care for older adults.
Opportunities for independent living using direct payments in mental health.
Listening for the communicative signals of humor, narratives, and self-disclosure in the family caregiver interview.
Recent research on consumer-directed home care in the Netherlands, England, Germany and the United States.
The past and future of home- and community-based long-term care.
Toward the necessary universalizing of a disability policy.
Medicaid home care services and survival in New York City.
Worksite-based internet multimedia program for family caregivers of persons with dementia.
My home, your workplace: People with physical disability negotiate their sexual health without crossing professional boundaries.
Caregivers' reasons for nursing home placement: Clues for improving discussions with families prior to the transition.
Organizational characteristics associated with staff turnover in nursing homes.
How do hired workers fare under consumer-directed personal care?
Caregiver education and support programs: Best practice models.
Navigating the care system: A guide for providers to help family caregivers.
Easing the burden of caregiving: The impact of consumer-direction on primary informal caregivers in Arkansas.
Long-term care over an uncertain future: What can current retirees expect?
Longitudinal changes in the amount of informal care among publicly paid home care recipients.
Caregivers without coverage: The facts about a critical gap in long-term care
Health insurance access survey of direct-care workers in nursing homes and home-based care agencies in Boston, New Bedford/Fall River, including surveys of employees and of employers.
Employing, supporting, and retaining your personal assistant: An orientation workshop for people with disabilities.
Personal assistance services and direct-support workforce: A literature review.
Working together for quality personal care.
The role of training in improving the recruitment and retention of direct-care workers in long-term care.
Linking TANF recipients with paraprofessional long-term care jobs
It is a horrible term for someone': Service user and provider perspectives on 'personality disorder.'
Consumer direction in community-based long-term care: Implications for different stakeholders.
Family care and paid care: Separate worlds or common ground?
What quality paid home care means to family caregivers.
The importance of relationship: Elders and their paid family caregivers in the Arkansas Cash and Counseling Qualitative Study.
Medicaid Home Care Waivers for Persons with HIV/AIDS: Program Expenditures, Participants and Policies.
Future demand for formal long-term care in Sweden.
Unequal but equitable: An analysis of variations in old-age care in Sweden.
Are public care and services for older people targeted according to need? Applying the Behavioural Model on longitudinal data of a Swedish urban older population.
Australian eldercare providers: Comparing volunteers and temporary staff on work environment, interpersonal relationships, and self-efficacy.
Restructuring home care in the 1990s: Geographical differentiation in Ontario, Canada.
Neighbors, friends, and other nonkin caregivers of community-living dependent elders.
Increasing knowledge, skills, and empathy among direct care workers in elder care: A preliminary study of an active-learning model.
The Workforce Investment Act: How policy conflict and policy ambiguity affect implementation
Raising the quality of home care: A study of service users' views.
Preference for a cash option versus traditional services for Florida children and adolescents with developmental disabilities.
Personal assistance providers' mistreatment of disabled adults.
Fixing the system? The experience of service users of the quasi-market in disability services in Australia.
Managing work and care: A difficult challenge for immigrant families.
Innovation and adaptation: Contrasting efforts to organize home care workers in four states.
The experiences of workers hired under Cash and Counseling: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey.
Health insurance coverage of direct support workers in the developmental disabilities field.
Eldercare in New Hampshire: Labor market trends and their implications.
Ahead of the curve: Emerging trends and practices in family caregiver support.
Home care quality: Emerging state strategies to deliver person-centered services.
Home and community-based long-term services and supports for older people.
Racial and ethnic differences among older adults in long-term care service use.
Reforming the system for workers providing homecare.
Peer mentoring: A workshop series for direct-care workers in home and residential care.
"We shall travel on": Quality of care, economic development, and the international migration of long-term workers.
Staying the course: Trends in family caregiving.
Current findings and future directions in research on homecare work issues.
Arranging for personal assistance services and assistive technology at work
Assistive technology training: Diverse audiences and multidisciplinary content.
Assistive technology: Choosing the right tool for the right job.
Maximizing employee effectiveness through use of Personal Assistance Services at the workplace.
Being an effective workplace personal assistant.
Accessing personal assistance services in the workplace: Struggles and successes.
Supported employment and natural supports: A critique and analysis
An investigation of reasonable workplace accommodations for people with psychiatric disabilities: Quantitative findings from a multi-site study.
PAS eligibility criteria: Technical assistance for the Medicaid Infrastructure Grants.
The evolution of personal assistance services as a workplace support.
Family-directed support network for families of people with disabilities.
Increasing service flexibility for caregivers.
Supporting family caregivers in ethnic minority communities.
Recruiting direct service professionals/personal assistants in a competitive environment.
Back-up support when a person's attendant is absent.
Understanding Homecare Providers: Live issues about management, quality and relationships with Social Services Purchasers.
Recruitment and hiring process to identify suitable direct support workers.
Cash and counseling demonstration and evaluation report on Florida paid worker focus groups.
Cash and counseling demonstration and evaluation report on New Jersey paid worker focus groups.
Reconsidering substitution in long-term care: When does assistive technology take the place of personal care?
The future supply of long-term care workers in relation to the aging baby boom generation: Report to Congress.
Results of the 2005 national survey of state initiatives on the long-term care workforce.
Recent findings on frontline long-term care workers: A research synthesis 1999-2003.
People in low-paid informal work: 'Need, not greed.'
Measuring long-term care work: A guide to selected instruments to examine direct care worker experiences and outcomes.
Best practices and trade secrets: How to recruit and retain quality staff.
Direct care worker associations: Empowering workers to improve the quality of home- and community-based care.
Changing to consumer-directed care: The implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Florida.
The illustrated history of Maine PASA: Establishing an association for direct care and direct support workers in Maine.
Consumer and Counselor Experiences in the Arkansas Independent Choices Program.
Effects of emotion-oriented care on work-related outcomes of professional caregivers in homes for elderly persons.
Care revolutions in the making? A comparison for cash-for-care programmes in four European countries.
Whose empowerment and independence? A cross-national perspective on 'cash for care' schemes.
Linkages between migration and the care of frail older people: Observations from Greece, Ghana and The Netherlands.
Future demand for long-term care in the U.K.: A summary of projections of long-term care finance for older people to 2051.
Integrating occupational health and safety into the United States' personal assistance services workforce agenda.
National Family Caregiver Support Program Resource Guide.
Global dimensions of gender and carework.
Using a personal assistant in the workplace
Independent living and employment services: Equal paths to community integration
Workplace inclusion: Persons with disabilities and coworkers working together.
Finding the right personal assistant.
STIL, the Stockholm cooperative for independent living.
The impact of anticipated social consequences on recurring disability accommodation requests.
Employers' knowledge and utilization of accommodations.
Residential Care Provision in Medicaid Home and Community Based Waivers: A National Suty of Program Trends.
Variation by Disability in State Predictors of Medicaid 1915c Waiver Use and Expenditures.
Strengthening Home and Community Based Care Through Medicaid Waivers.
Independent futures: Creating user-led disability services in a disabling society.
Comparing long-term care insurance policies: Bewildering choices for consumers.
Piloting choice and control for older people: An evaluation.
'It pays dividends:' Direct payments and older people.
Issues in the direct support workforce and their connections to the growth, sustainability and quality of community supports.
Women and long-term care: Where will I live and who will take care of me?
The young, the old and the state: Social care systems in five industrial nations.
"The design of the long-term care system in Spain: Policy and financial constraints."
Care as a good for social policy.
Homecare worker organizing in California: An analysis of a successful strategy.
Welfare state policy and informal long-term care giving in Austria: Old gender divisions and new stratification processes among women.
Low wage workers and high housing costs.
Women's carework in low-income households: The special case of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Implementing the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act: Will the supply of personal assistants meet the demand and at what price?
Of markets and martyrs: Is it OK to pay well for care?
Personal assistants and disabled people: An examination of a hybrid of work and care.
Thinking about the production and consumption of long-term care in Britain: Does gender still matter?
The personal assistance workforce: Trends in supply and demand.
Where have all the home care workers gone?
Changing the Culture of Long-Term Care Moving Beyond Programmatic Change.
Quality services and quality jobs for supporting Californians with developmental disabilities.
The MetLife caregiving cost study: Productivity losses to U.S. business.
Care allowances for the frail elderly and their impact on women care-givers
Consumer direction and choice in long-term care for older persons, including payments for informal care: How can it help improve care outcomes, employment and fiscal sustainability?
Projecting OECD health and long-term care expenditures. What are the main drivers?
Ensuring quality long-term care for older people.
Family caregiver research and the HIPAA factor.
Creating careers, improving care: A win-win economic advancement strategy for certified nursing assistants in long-term care.
Invisible no longer: Advancing the entry-level workforce in health care.
The Medicaid Buy-In Program: Lessons Learned from Nine Early Implementer States.
Policy Frameworks for Designing Medicaid Buy-In Programs and Related State Work Incentive Initiatives.
Survey of Minnesotans enrolled in the Medical Assistance for Employed Persons with Disabilities (MA-EPD) program.
Achieving successful employment outcomes with the use of assistive technology.
South Dakota Medicaid Infrastructure Grant. South Dakota Freedom to Work Survey Report.
Personal assistance services: A vital workplace support.
Employers' view of workplace support: Virginia Commonwealth University Charter Business Roundtable's National Study of Employers' Experiences with Workers with Disabilities.
Medicaid and Work Incentives for People with Disabilities: Background and Issues.
Ability or inability to work: Challenges in moving towards a more work-focused disability definition for Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs.
A national survey of consumer attitudes toward companies that hire people with disabilities
How much are Medicaid Buy-In participants earning? Working with Disability Issue Brief, 1.
Reducing Nursing Home Use Through Consumer-Directed Personal Care Services.
Providing personal assistance services through a Medicaid State Plan Option.
The caregiver's tale: Loss and renewal in memoirs of family life.
Developing quality in personal social services: Concepts, cases and comments.
Informal caregivers and the risk of nursing home admission among individuals enrolled in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Conceptualization and psychometric properties of caregiver burden scale in Taiwan.
Overstretched: European families up against the demands of work and care.
Mental health of mothers caring for ventilator-assisted children at home.
Making choices: A within-family study of caregiver selection.
European disability pension policies: 11 country trends 1970-2002.
Mental health and sleep of older wife caregivers for spouses with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Providing assistance services through a Medicaid state plan option.
Addressing New York City's care gap: Aligning workforce policy to support home- and community-based care.
Bridging the gaps: State and local strategies for ensuring backup personal care services.
Paying for quality care: Strategies for improving wages and benefits for personal care assistants.
Highlights of fourth quarter MIG activities.
Out of the shadows: Envisioning a brighter future for long-term care in America.
How does the Medicaid Buy-In Program relate to other federal efforts to improve access to health coverage for adults with disabilities?
Workforce issues and consumer satisfaction in Medicaid personal assistance services.
The Cross-Atlantic exchange to advance long-term care.
Personal care satisfaction among aged and physically disabled Medicaid beneficiaries.
Reimbursement practices and issues in Vermont's long-term care programs.
Medicaid's long-term care beneficiaries: An analysis of spending patterns.
Nursing Facilities, Staffing, Residents, and Facility Deficiencies, 1999 through 2005
Home and Community-Based Services: Medicaid Research and Demonstration Waivers
Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act conference committee report offers states new options on home and community based services.
State perspectives on Medicaid long-term care: Report from a July 2003 state forum.
Building nursing home transition into a balanced long term care systems: The Washington model.
Single entry point systems: State survey results.
Sustaining nursing home transition programs: Covering case management services.
Assessment instruments in 12 states.
Promising practices in long term care systems reform: Common factors of systems change.
Creating better systems of care for people with chronic conditions: A building block approach.
Long term care integration primer.
Integrating acute and long-term care for high-cost populations.
The networks and resource exchanges in community-based systems of care.
Workgroup's recommendations help HMOs identify and care for high-risk chronically ill older patients.
Implementing end-of-life treatment preferences across clinical settings.
Personal assistance services as a workplace accommodation.
Medicaid 1915(c) home and community-based services program: Data update.
Medicaid long-term services reforms in the Deficit Reduction Act.
Medicaid's long-term care beneficiaries: An analysis of spending patterns.
Profiles of nursing home residents on Medicaid.
National spending for long-term care: Fact sheet.
Medicaid and long term care: Fact sheet.
Conversations about the future of direct-care workforce research.
European experiences with long-term care: France, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.
The costs of long-term care: Public perceptions versus reality in 2006.
Across the states: Profiles of long-term care and independent living.
Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care: An Introduction.
National spending for long-term care: Fact sheet (updated).
Medicaid's spousal impoverishment protections: Fact sheet.
Governor's FY 07-08 State Budget Proposal on IHSS (memo).
Just getting by: Unmet need for personal assistance services among persons 50 or older with disabilities.
A growing crisis in health and long-term services and supports for older persons with disabilities: Changes from 2002-2005.
Effects of Cash and Counseling on personal care and well-being.
How caregivers and workers fared in Cash and Counseling.
Participation in the Medicaid Buy-in program: A statistical profile from integrated data. Final report.
MaineCare: Services for workers with disabilities chart book.
Direct service workforce activities of the Systems Change grantees.
Home care, home support, personal assistance: The co-operative model in context.
The cash and counseling demonstration: An experiment in consumer-directed personal assistance services.
The "reinvention" of personal assistance services.
Multi-stakeholder coalitions: Promoting improvements in the long-term care workforce. Better jobs, better care. Issue brief, 1
Innovative co-ops in the social services sector: A research study to benefit people with developmental disabilities and mental illness.
Presentation of JAG cooperative of personal assistance.
Annotated bibliography of literature on personal assistance service cooperatives.
Quality assurance for long-term care: The experiences of England, Australia, Germany and Japan
Snapshot: Long Term Care, Facts and Figures
California HealthCare Foundation, Oakland, CA.
Financial management services in consumer-directed programs.
A health handbook for women with disabilities.
Personal Assistance Services (PAS) Cooperatives: An Annotated Bibliography.
Long-term care preferences: An survey of Alabama residents age 35+.
FutureAge.
Caregivers without health care: Maine fact sheet.
Caregivers without health care: Michigan fact sheet.
Caregivers without health care: Pennsylvania fact sheet.
Comprehensive health coverage for consumer-directed home care workers: Washington State case study.
Assessing the impact of Hurricane Katrina on persons with disabilities.
Beyond Cash and Counseling: The second generation of individual budget-based community long term care programs for the elderly.
KaiserEDU.org issue module: Financing long-term care.
The basics of Medicare and Medicaid.
Study of Maine's direct care workforce: Wages, health coverage, and a worker registry.
Long-term care: An AARP survey of New York residents age 50+.
The SEIU 775 long-term care training, support ad career development network: A blueprint for the future.
An introduction to the National Nursing Assistant Survey.
Aging Out of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT): Issues for Young Adults with Disabilities.
Assisted living in unlicensed housing: The regulatory experience of four states.
Respectful relationships: The heart of Better Jobs Better Care.
CMS Direct Service Workforce Demonstration Promising Practices in Marketing, Recruitment and Selection Interventions.
Emerging strategies for providing health coverage to the frontline workforce in long term care.
Protections in Medicaid estate recovery: Findings, promising practices, and model notices.
Women & Long-Term Care.
The case for inclusion 2007: An analysis of Medicaid for Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The interaction of policy and enrollment in the Medicaid Buy-In Program, 2005.
Consumer discourse in assisted living.
Measuring change in activities of daily living in nursing home residents with moderate to severe cognitive impairment.
Measuring depression in nursing home residents with the MDS and GDS: An observational psychometric study.
Payer incentives and physical rehabilitation therapy for nonelderly institutional long-term care residents: Evidence from Michigan and Ontario.
Ranking the 'balance' of state long-term care systems: A comparative exposition of the SMARTER and CaRBS techniques.
Risk adjustment methods for home care quality indicators (HCQIs) based on the minimum data set for home care.
Skilled nursing facility rehabilitation and discharge to home after stroke.
Barriers to workers' compensation and medical care for injured Personal Assistance Services workers.
Valuing the invaluable: A new look at the economic value of family caregiving.
Valuing the invaluable: A new look at the state estimates of the economic value of family caregiving.
Improving care and assistance security for vulnerable older women in California.
Care work in Europe: Current understandings and future directions.
Abuse and violence during home care work as predictor of worker depression.
The new Medicaid Integrity Program: Issues and challenges in ensuring program integrity in Medicaid.
Community-based long-term services financed by Medicaid: Managing resources to provide appropriate Medicaid services.
Long-term care financing: Policy options for the future.
Long-term care policy option proposal: Consumer controlled chronic, home and community care for the elderly and disabled.
Can't they get anything better? Home support workers call for change.
Subsidizing health insurance coverage for the home care workforce in two Wisconsin counties: An analysis of options.
Barriers to documenting occupational injuries among personal assistance services workers.
Stroke: The increasing complexity of carer needs.
Meeting the long-term care needs of the baby boomers: How changing families will affect paid helpers and institutions.
The burden of caring for frail parents: Statement before the Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress.
Developing personal care programs: National trends and interstate variation, 1992-2002.
Health promotion and disease prevention for people with disabilities: An annotated bibliography.
Valuing the Invaluable: A New Look at State Estimates of the Economic Value of Family Caregiving.
Trading Places: Real Choice Systems Change Grants and the Movement to Community-Based Long-Term Care Supports
Wages and Benefits Return of Investment Calculator
State approaches to consumer direction in Medicaid.
Workers who care: A graphical profile of the frontline health and health care workforce.
State legislation regarding wages and benefits of home care workers: Thirteen promising practices.
Money Follows the Person Toolbox: Services for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
Curriculum for Empowering Advocates.
Curriculum for Empowering Parents.
Curriculum for Empowering Self-Advocates.
Real Choice Mentor Training Manual.
Relax. Take a Break: A Family Guide to Respite for Children.
Transition Guide to Community Living with a Self Assessment Tool.
Wisconsin's Guardian Mentor Program.
Toward a Framework for Monitoring the Quality of Care in Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly.
Is Telephone Screening Feasible? Accuracy and Cost-Effectiveness of Identifying Persons Medically Eligible for Home- and Community-Based Services.
Paid Personal Assistance Services: An Exploratory Study of Working Age Consumers' Perspectives.
Trends in State Certificate of Need and Moratoria Programs for Long Term Care Providers.
Nursing Staffing and Medicaid Reimbursement Rates.
Cost and Effectiveness of Accommodations in the Workplace: Preliminary Results of a Nationwide Study.
The U.S. Long Term Care Field: A Dialectic Analysis of Institution Dynamics.
Medicaid State Plan Personal Care Services: Trends in Programs and Policies.
State Medicaid Home Care Policies: Inside the Black Box.
Institutional and community-based long-term care: A comparative estimate of public costs.
A Longitudinal Analysis of State Variation in the Provision of Personal Care Services.
Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services for the Elderly: Trends in Programs and Policies.
Estimating the Expense of a Mandatory Home- and Community-Based Personal Assistance Services Benefit Under Medicaid.
Elder Disability as an Explanation of Racial Differences in Informal Home Care.
State Strategies to Support Community Based Long Term Care,
Strengthening Home and Community Based Care Through Medicaid Waivers.
Participation and Knowledge Related to a Nursing Home Admission Decision among a Working Age Population.
Personal Assistance Services for Workers with Disabilities: Views and Experiences of Rehabilitation Service Providers.
Predicting 12-Month Mortality for Persons with Dementia.
Medicare Expenditures at the End of Life for Persons with Dementia.
Outcomes in a nursing home transition case management program targeting new admissions.
Nursing Facility and Home and Community Based Service Need Criteria in the United States.
HCBS Recipients Are Increasingly Likely to Live With Parents or Other Relatives.
Shareholder Value and the Performance of a Large Nursing Home Chain.
Medicaid Nursing Facility Payment in the Face of State Fiscal Meltdown.
Employment personal assistance services (EPAS): A Medicaid work support.
Principles and practices of case management in rehabilitation counseling
Including employees with disabilities in emergency evacuation plans: 9/11's Effect on the demand for information.
User needs evaluation of workplace accommodations.
Developing transition health care plans. Promoting health care transitions for adolescents with special health care needs and disabilities
Preparing Home Health Clients for Work Opportunities With Workplace Accommodation.
Factors associated with employment success among youths with learning disabilities.
Ageing, disability and workplace accommodations.
The Impact of Business Size on Employer ADA Response.
A Descriptive Study of Customizing the Employment Process for Job Seekers with Significant Disabilities.
Telework and employees with disabilities: Accommodation and funding options.
Perceived Need for Workplace Accommodation and Labor-Force Participation in Canadian Adults With Activity Limitations.
Reasonable job accommodations for people with psychiatric disabilities.
Job accommodations for adults with learning disabilities: Brilliantly disguised opportunities.
Introduction to the Assistive Technology Section.
Assistive technology and computer adaptations for individuals with spinal cord injury.
A model of successful work experience for employees who are visually impaired: The results of a study.
Transition to What? Education and Employment Outcomes for Visually Impaired Youths after High School.
The Ticket to Work Program: Employment Networks' Views on Serving Beneficiaries Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired.
Overcoming Barriers to Employment: Strategies of Rehabilitation Providers.
Predictors of Competitive Employment for Blind and Visually Impaired Consumers of Vocational Rehabilitation Services.
Factors that Affect the Employment Status of Working-Age Adults with Visual Impairments in New Zealand.
The business perspective on employers, disability, and vocational rehabilitation.
Using the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to Benefit Youth With Blindness and Visual Impairment.
Collaboration and partnership to improve employment outcomes.
Employment differences among persons with congenital and adventitious vision loss.
Factors associated with employment among persons who have a vision impairment: A follow-up of vocational placement referrals.
Barriers to employment: A survey of employed persons who are visually impaired.
The relationship between social networks and the employment of visually impaired college graduates.
Services for Supporting Family Carers of Older Dependent People in Europe: Characteristics, Coverage and Usage.
The Value of Geriatric Care Enhancement Training for Direct Service Workers.
Peer Mentoring in Long-Term Care: Rationale, Design and Retention.
Cash and Counseling: Improving the Lives of Medicaid Beneficiaries Who Need Personal Care or Home- and Community-Based Services.
Direct Care Workers' Recommendations for Training and Continuing Education.
Fostering Supportive Learning Environments in Long-Term Care: The Case of WIN A STEP UP.
State Perspectives on Emerging Medicaid Long-Term Care Policies and Practices.
Attitudinal barriers and strategies for overcoming them.
Final Report on the "Own Your Future" Consumer Survey.
Employment problems and solutions: Perceptions of blind and visually impaired adults.
Cultural Competence in Nursing Homes: Issues and Implications for Education.
Direct Support Professional Work Group Report.
Employment status of severely visually impaired men and women.
Leadership Stories from Maine: The Voices of Direct-Care Workers in Culture Change.
Does High Caregiver Stress Lead to Nursing Home Entry?
Introduction: The Role of Training and Education in Solving the Direct Care Workforce Crisis.
Work status outcomes of vocational rehabilitation clients who are blind or visually impaired.
Baseline Management Practices at Providers in Better Jobs Better Care.
Assistive Technology and Employment: Experiences of Californians with Disabilities.
Supported and time-limited transitional employment services.
Employment concerns of people with blindness or visual impairments.
The elusive population: Characteristics of attenders versus non-attenders for community mental health center intakes.
Facilitators and barriers to employment among individuals with psychiatric disabilities: A job coach perspective.
What predicts re-employment after job loss for individuals with mental retardation?
Effects of Ecological and Standardized Vocational Assessments on Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors' Perceptions Regarding Individuals With Developmental Disabilities.
Evaluation of a shared-work program for reducing assistance provided to supported workers with severe multiple disabilities.
VICAID: Development and evaluation of a palmtop-based job aid for workers with severe developmental disabilities.
Reducing job coach assistance for supported workers with severe multiple disabilities: An alternative off-site/on-site model.
Supported employment. Mental retardation and developmental disabilities
Paid co-worker support for individuals with severe and multiple disabilities.
Training quality job interviews with adults with developmental disabilities.
Job coach follow-along activities: Analysis and recommendations.
Job satisfaction of persons in supported employment.
Vocational Rehabilitation in Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders: A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Association between demographic and diagnostic factors and employment outcomes for people with psychiatric disabilities: A synthesis of recent research.
Technology use by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to support employment activities: A single-subject design meta analysis.
Applications of meta-analysis in rehabilitation research education.
Life Activities Among Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Living in the Community: Perceived Choice and Perceived Barriers.
The current state of personal assistance services: Implications for policy and future research.
Consumer-directed personal assistance services: Independent living, community integration and the vocational rehabilitation process.
Operation People First: Toward a national disability policy.
Assistive technology outcomes in work settings.
Informed decision making on assistive technology workplace accommodations for people with visual impairments.
Wired to work: A qualitative analysis of assistive technology training for people with visual impairments.
Factors that prevent or assist the integration of assistive technology into the workplace for people with spinal cord injuries: Perspectives of the users and their employers and co-workers.
Enhancing employment outcomes through job accommodation and assistive technology resources and services.
Use of assistive technology in vocational rehabilitation of persons with traumatic brain injury.
Achieving greater independence through assistive technology, job accommodation and supported employment.
Supported employment and assistive technology for persons with spinal cord injury: Three illustrations of successful work supports.
Customer service: What is its place in assistive technology and employment services?
Supported employment and assistive technology for individuals with physical impairments.
Personal Assistance Services (PAS) Cooperatives: Final Report
Life Activities Among Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Living in the Community: Perceived Choice and Perceived Barriers.
Analysis of case managers' support of youth with disabilities transitioning from school to work.
Facilitating integrated employment outcomes for individuals with significant disabilities: Parents' perspective.
Perspectives on benefits and costs of work from individuals with psychiatric disabilities.
Integrated employment or sheltered workshops: Preferences of adults with intellectual disabilities, their families, and staff.
Pushing the employment agenda: Case study research of high performing states in integrated employment.
Achieving community membership through community rehabilitation provider services: Are we there yet?
Review of research on self-management interventions in supported employment settings for employees with disabilities.
Assessing the Underutilization of Supported Employment Services.
Evaluation of a Combined Supported Computer Education and Employment Training Program for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities.
Applications for Youth with Learning Disabilities.
Work Ability and PAR: A guide for implementing full participation in complex systems change initiatives.
The development of supported employment in Scotland.
Staff Presence in job Interviews Is Still Suspect.
"Staff Presence in Job Interviews Is Still Suspect": Reply.
Customized Employment: From Practice to Policy.
Pay-for-performance initiatives and B. F. Skinner.
A Bayesian belief network for quality assessment: Application to employment officer support.
Supporting consumer directed employment outcomes.
Person centered funding: Using vouchers and personal budgets to support recovery and employment for people with psychiatric disabilities.
What Policymakers Need and Must Demand From Research Regarding the Employment Rate of Persons with Disabilities.
Augmenting workplace PAS through the use of Assistive Technology
The Job Developer's Presence in the Job Interview: Is It Helpful or Harmful to Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities Seeking Employment?
Lessons Learned From the Provision and Funding of Employment Services for the MR/DD Population: Implications for Assessing the Adequacy of the SSA Ticket to Work.
Comparing Employment Outcomes of Vocational Rehabilitation Consumers with Hearing Loss to Other Consumers and the General Labor Force.
Comparing Long-Term Care in Germany and the United States: What Can We Learn from Each Other?
Women & Long-Term Care.
A Cross-Disability Analysis of Person-Directed, Long-Term Services.
Issues in the School-to-Work Transition of Hard of Hearing Adolescents.
Assessing the employment and independence of people who are deaf and low functioning.
Job coaching: A means to reduce unemployment and underemployment in the deaf community.
A "stranger" among us: Hiring in-home support for a child with autism spectrum disorders or other neurological differences.
The 2008 Hawaii health and long-term care survey.
Health care reform and long-term care: A survey of AARP members in New Mexico.
Long-term care in Tennessee: A survey of self-identified registered likely voters age 18+.
2007 Virginia member survey.
More can be done: Involvement of older consumers in the design, implementation and oversight of home and community based services
Consumer direction of personal assistance services programs in Medicaid: Insights from enrollees in four states.
Consumer direction of personal assistance services programs in Medicaid: A review of four state programs.
Job perceptions and intent to leave among direct care workers: Evidence from the Better Jobs Better Care demonstrations.
They're taking the place of my hands': Perspectives of people using personal care.
Caregiver burden for impaired elderly Japanese with prevalent stroke and dementia under long-term care insurance system.
Advocacy of women family caregivers: Response to nonsupportive interactions with professionals.
The relationship between self-efficacy and cumulative health risk associated with health behavior patterns in female caregivers of elderly relatives with Alzheimer's dementia.
Assistance received by employed caregivers and their care recipients: Who helps care recipients when caregivers work full time?
Factors influencing family caregivers' ability to cope with providing end-of-life cancer care at home.
Are consumer-directed home care beneficiaries satisfied? Evidence from Washington state.
Race and gender differences in perceived caregiver availability for community-dwelling middle-aged older adults.
Impact of California's Medi-Cal Long Term Care Reimbursement Act On Access, Quality and Costs.
Variation in types of service use and expenditures for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Medicaid 1915(c) Waiver Use and Expenditures for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS.
Assistive Technology in Medicaid Home-and Community-Based Waiver Programs.
Occupational Projections for Direct-Care Workers 2006-2016.
Advancing Medicaid HCBS policy: From capped consumer to consumer-directed.
Rural family caregivers and health behaviors: results from an epidemiologic survey.
Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework
Can counseling and support reduce burden and depressive symptoms in caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease during the transition to institutionalization? Results from the New York University Caregiver Intervention Study.
Genworth Financial 2008 Cost of Care Study: Home care providers, adult day health care facilities, assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
Evaluation of interventions to improve recruitment and retention: Summary of results.
Post-hospital clinic for older patients and their family caregivers.
Retooling for an aging America: Building the health care workforce.
The cost-effectiveness of a behavior intervention with caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Evaluation of internet-based technology for supporting self-care: problems encountered by patients and caregivers when using self-care applications.
Occupational projections for direct-care workers 2006-2016.
Problem-solving training for family caregivers of persons with traumatic brain injuries: a randomized controlled trial.
Lung cancer, caring for the caregivers. A qualitative study of providing pro-active social support targeted to the carers of patients with lung cancer.
A compendium of three discussion papers: Strategies for promoting and improving the direct service workforce. Applications to Home and Community-Based Services, Community, Community Living Exchange Collaborative.
Racial and Ethnic Variations in Caregiver Service Use.
Nursing Home Emancipation: Accomplishments of Urban and Rural Centers for Independent Living
Medicaid: Overview and Impact of New Regulations
The Administration's Medicaid Regulations: State-By-State Impacts
A balancing act: State long-term care reform.
An Audit