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- State Disability Statistics - Find disability statistics for your state
- Personal Home Care Workers - Find the Number of Personal Home Care Workers in your State
- Medicaid Waiver Data - Find Medicaid Waiver Data for your State
- Medicaid HCBS Data - Find Medicaid HCBS Data for your State
- Federal HCBS Funding - Find Federal HCBS Funding for your State
- State only Funded HCBS - Find State only Funded HCBS for your State
- Demo Waiver Information - Find Demo Waiver Information for your State
- Olmstead Plans and Lawsuits - Find Olmstead Plans and Lawsuits in your State
- Research Demo Projects - Find Research Demo Projects in your State
- Contact Information and Descriptions for Medicaid Waivers - Find Contact Information and Descriptions for Medicaid Waivers for your State
- State Agencies related to PAS - Find State Agencies related to PAS
- State Resources for Employment of Persons with Disabilities - Find State Resources for Employment of Persons with Disabilities
- PAS Reports and Publications related to State - Find PAS Reports and Publications related to State
- State PAS Workforce Library - Find PAS Workforce Library resources related to State
Reports and Publications
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(2012). Allowing spouses to be paid personal care providers: Spouse availability and the effects of Medicaid-funded service use and expenditures. Gerontologist, 52, 4, pp.517-530.
(2012, July). Unintended Consequences Of Steps To Cut Readmissions And Reform Payment May Threaten Care Of Vulnerable Older Adults. Health Affairs, Vol. 31 No. 7, pp.1623-1632. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0110
(2012). Changes and inertia in the New York State Medicaid Personal Care Services Program: An Institutional Case Study. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 24, 3, pp.309-327.
Library
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(2003, February). Policy brief: The applicability of the ADA to personal assistance in the workplace. Boston, MA: The Institute for Community Inclusion.
(2003). The California Working Disabled Program: Lessons learned, looking ahead. Oakland, CA: Lewin Group, for the Medical Policy Institute.
(2002). Estimating paid and unpaid hours of personal assistance services in activities of daily living provided to adults living at home. Health Services Research, 37(2), pp.397-415.
Presentations
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Harrington, C. (2003, Oct 27) Medicaid Long Term Care: Home and Community Based Services. Presented at the Unmet Needs in Personal Assistance Services: Prevalence, Consequences, Costs and Policy Options hosted by Disability Statistics Center at UCSF.
Miller, N.A. (2003, Nov 21) State Predictors of Medicaid 1915c Use and Expenditures. Presented at the Annual Meeting: Our Future Selves: Research, Education and Services for Early Development and Childhood in an Aging Society hosted by The Gerontological Society of America.
Kitchener, M. (2003, Nov 15) Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Under Fiscal Crisis. Presented at the 131st Annual Meeting and Exposition hosted by American Public Health Association.
Links
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Steve Gold is an experienced disability rights attorney based in Pennsylvania. He maintains this website which is a very useful resource for anyone interested in disability rights in the U.S. The website provides regular bulletins on policy developments, legislation, research and statistics concerning five key issues for people with disabilities: housing, medical assistance/Medicaid, nursing homes, education, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The website presents short, easy to read bulletins and also give tips on how to use the facts and figures in state and local lobbying. It also presents sources of further information. It is possible to sign-up online to receive new bulletins by email and there is a searchable archive of all previous bulletins.
AgeSource Worldwide identifies several hundred information resources in some 25 countries which are significant either in size or in their unique coverage of particular aging related issues. The resources include among others clearinghouses libraries, databases, training materials, major reports and Web metasites.
AgeStats Worldwide provides access to statistical data that compare the situation of older adults across countries or regions around a variety of issues such as demography, pensions, health and long-term care. The most recent data and projections as far ahead as 2060 are provided, where available.
You may search either or both databases at one time. Access is free of charge.
AgeSource and AgeStats Worldwide have been created by AARP to facilitate the international exchange of policy and program, relevant information in aging.
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA) is a national non-profit organization established in 1999 by The American Geriatrics Society. The foundation aims to build a bridge between the research and practice of Geriatrics and the Public, and to advocate on behalf of older adults and their special health care needs. The website has information on common health problems such as diabetes, falls, etc. and educational materials on geriatrics.