Developing and Implementing Self-Direction Programs and Policies: A Handbook

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Developing and Implementing Self-Direction Programs and Policies: A Handbook

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Self-Directed Budget Enhances Access to Home Health and Other Needed Services, Resulting in Fewer Unmet Needs, Better Health Outcomes, and High Satisfaction for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Description

This handbook, from the national Cash & Counseling program, provides information for State staff, policymakers, service providers, program participants, and other stakeholders about self-direction programs and policies. It can be used to explain how States can increase program participants’ choice of and control over their services and supports. It also can help expand self-direction options in programs already providing home and community services and supports and develop new self-direction programs.

Topics covered are:

Chapter 1 – Self-direction: An overview
Chapter 2 – Legal authority
Chapter 3 – Involving participants in program design, implementation, and evaluation
Chapter 4 – Enrollment
Chapter 5 – Individual budgeting
Chapter 6 – Counseling
Chapter 7 – Fiscal/employer agent services
Chapter 8 – Quality management in self-direction programs
Chapter 9 – Self-direction and health care
Chapter 10 – Looking ahead
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This tool is available at: http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/gssw/nrcpds/tools/handbook.html
The PDF version of the tool is available at: http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/gssw_sites/nrcpds/cc-full.pdf (If you don't have the software to open this PDF, download free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software External Web Site Policy

Developer

Administration on Aging; National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Funding Sources

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

QualityTool Topic

Quality improvement strategies

History

Release Date: 02/2009
Original Summary: 09/2009

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QualityTool Classification

Patient Population:

Aged adult (80 + years)

Disabled (physically)

Frail elderly

Medicaid

Senior adult (65-79 years)

Stage of Care:

Long-term care

Setting of Care:

Home health care

Patient Care Process: