The SCAN Foundation

This report, conducted by Mildred Consulting, describes the potential for using flexible account practices in California's system of long-term services and supports.

• To read the policy brief, please click here.

This technical assistance brief is a product of CHCS' Implementing the Roadmaps: Innovations in Long-Term Supports and Services program, made possible through The SCAN Foundation. Through this program, CHCS is helping participating states to rebalance and better manage an array of long-term services and supports for Medicaid populations.

• To read the technical assistance brief, "Long-Term Services and Supports -- Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act," please click here.

The fall 2011 issue of Public Policy & Aging Report (PPAR), is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. Over the years, the committee has called attention to pressing needs facing older Americans. Articles describe the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. The issue is supported in part by The SCAN Foundation.

• To read the PPAR fall 2011 issue, "America's Opportunity: The Potential of an Aging Society," please click here.

This policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, produced with support from The SCAN Foundation, presents findings from a yearlong study that followed a small but typical set of older Californians with disabilities who depend on fragile arrangements of paid public programs and unpaid help to live safely and independently at home. All of those people who were surveyed share a common desire to maintain their independence at almost any cost.

• To read the policy brief, "Independence at Risk: Older Californians with Disabilities Struggle to Remain at Home as Public Supports Shrink," please click here.

Please read the case studies that have been produced as a result of this research:

1. "Bertha"
2. "Jill"
3. "Vickie"
4. "Yvette"
5. "Fran"
6. "Ana"
7. "Michael"
8. "Carmen"