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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 -2005 — As the number of older persons in need of long-term care increases, efforts to support older persons remaining in their home are intensified in most OECD countries. In this context of ageing in place, there is a movement towards allowing more individual choice for older persons receiving publicly funded long-term care at home.
Funding for Long-Term Care Programs-A Balancing Act-State Long-Term Care Reform(July08-AARP)
Integrating the Single Assessment Process into a lifestyle-monitoring system 2005 — Lifestyle-monitoring systems are being researched to determine if they can predict long-term deterioration in well-being and allow carers to anticipate and address emerging problems.
Long Term Support for Individuals with Disabilities Part II: Supporting Adults with Mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities 2006
LONG TERM SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES PART 1: SUPPORTING ADULTS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES -2004 — ADRC TAE Issue Brief -More at http://www.adrc-tae.org/tiki-index.php?page=taeissuebriefs
Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities -2006 — More resources from the Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC) -- http://rtc.umn.edu/residential/pub1.asp
Older People and Community Care in Scotland - A Review of Recent Research -2004 — This report presents a review of research literature relating to the range and quality of community care services for older people in Scotland. It also references the 2002 article: Pilot evaluation of ‘Opening Doors for Older People’ in ‘wired’ West Lothian – Report to West Lothian Council (I have a copy - Duncan Blackman)
Policy and Guidelines on Supporting People with Intellectual Disability and/or Autism with Personal and Intimate Care 2014 — This document is designed to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe intimate and personal care practice. It sets out the steps staff members should follow when supporting people with their personal and intimate care.
RESULTS OF THE 2003 NATIONAL SURVEY OF STATE INITIATIVES ON THE LONG-TERM CARE DIRECT-CARE WORKFORCE — For many useful resources on this subject see: http://www.directcareclearinghouse.org/index.jsp
Technical Assistance Exchange — The U.S. Administration on Aging sponsors this Exchange to make information and resources available to states and community organizations. AoA is committed to supporting states' efforts to develop and sustain a person-centered, self-directed national long term supports and services system.
THE NEXT STAGE: RETIREMENT PLANNING FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES FINAL REPORT April 2009 — This project has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Population Health Fund, Public Health Agency of Canada. the intent of the project had a specific focus on dissemination of the project’s learnings to build capacity for building linkages between the aging and disability sectors to foster social inclusion.