Paying Family Caregivers: Self-direction in Medicaid Personal Care
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Description
Compares characteristics of dually eligible older adults receiving caregiving through either self-direction and non-self-direction, including personal demographics, health conditions, healthcare utilization, and rurality. Discusses rural findings in light of workforce shortages in rural communities. Includes analysis of Medicaid data from 6 states with reliable self-direction data as well as analysis of characteristics for 41 states and Washington, D.C.
Author(s)
Yiqing Kuang, Katherine E.M. Miller
Citation
Health Affairs Scholar, 3(11)
Date
11/2025
Tagged as
Elderly population
· Health conditions
· Health workforce supply and demand
· Informal caregivers
· Medicaid
· Medicare
· Rural-urban differences
· Statistics and data
· California
· Connecticut
· Massachusetts
· New Jersey
· New York
· Wisconsin