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| • What help you need within your budget |
| • When your care will be provided |
• How much responsibility you want.
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You can now decide what help you need to continue to live in your home and in your community as you age. With this option you have more responsibility with hiring, training and managing your helpers. If you are providing care to an older family member, there are also more choices available. Consumer Directed Community Supports is an option in Minnesota that lets you choose and manage your own help. View the You decide. Your help. video to better understand this option or take a look at this brochure (PDF).
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| The final narrative report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Minnesota’s Cash & Counseling Grant 2005 – 2007 is complete. The Cash & Counseling Grant ended, but Aging and Adult Services was awarded a Nursing Home Diversion Modernization Grant from the Administration on Aging to further develop flexible service options for older adults and family caregivers. It will also pilot-test a “rapid screen” to identify and divert private-pay individuals at risk of nursing home or assisted living placement. |
| The final evaluation report (PDF) on Consumer Directed Community Supports for Older Adults in Minnesota is available. The evaluation was conducted on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Cash & Counseling Grant 2005 – 2007. |
| Any CDCS participants and their family members interested in meeting and exchanging information with others using or working with the CDCS service option can join the Self-Directed Services Advocacy Group. Goals of the group are to educate, share ideas and promote the consumer-directed philosophy in Minnesota |
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