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Consumer-Directed Services: Lessons And Implications For Integrated Systems Of Care, Dennis L. Kodner
Consumer-Directed Services: Lessons And Implications For Integrated Systems Of Care, Dennis L. Kodner
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Abstract Over the past decade, policy makers in developed countries have begun to pay increasing attention to reform of the long-term care system for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities. A continuum of strategies have generated interest, including integrated systems of care with agency/professionally managed service packages on the one end, and programs offering cash benefits along with the flexibility to decide how to best use these funds to meet individual needs and preferences, on the other. The latter approach, known as “consumer-directed care,” is found in various forms and degrees in Europe and North America. Primarily organised …