New Horizons Un-Limited Inc. New Horizons Un-Limited Inc.Health and Disability Advocates has written this guide as overview to the Medicaid Buy-in Program. This program was designed to provide access to comprehensive health care for working people with disabilities. This guide offers a great discussion on how states can go about developing a Buy-in program and also educates you, the consumer, on this concept.
Choosing a Caregiver: A Guide for Individuals and Families with Special Needs
This guide, published by the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs offers hiring tips for consumers and families, an interview checklist, safety tips, information on developing an emergency plan, as well as a number of helpful checklists and worksheets.
Exceptional Parent presents this guide by Tricia and Calvin Luker, exerpted from material written by the Lukers for the Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services. Common terms and issues of managed care are listed and defined.
Guide to Searching for and Selecting a Home Health Aide
January 30, 1998
This guide was prepared by our NHU staff to assist individuals in searching for a home health aide. It gives general information on home health aides, how to locate aides, determining your needs and resources, and more.
Guide to Searching for and Selecting a Nursing Home
June 8, 1998
One usually does not begin to look for something until one is at need. It is important however, to consider and investigate your options for any type of long term care before you need this type of care. Have you considered all the options for long term care that may be available to you or better meet your needs? Our NHU staff has prepared this guide to assist you in your search.
Hiring and Management of Personal Care Assistants for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
This resource, written by the Spinal Cord Injury Project of Santa Clara Medical Valley Center, offers an introduction on personal assistant hiring options and includes the hard-to-find background information and forms for screening, interviewing, and hiring (and keeping) a personal care assistant. This document is available in portable document format (PDF) and is viewable with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. wrote this very informative guide in 2003. It covers just about anything you need to know about Medicaid eligibility. It also provides a very good summary of the Medicaid program in general.
Medical Debt and Seniors: How Consumer Law Can Help
National Consumer Law Center Inc. has written a guide outlining strategies for dealing with medical bills before consumers are sued. While the guide was written with Seniors in mind, the advice applies to people of all ages.
Transition to Adult Care: A Training Guide
This guide, published by The Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin, serves as a reference for anyone interested in helping young people with special health care needs and their parents prepare for transition to adult health care.
The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities
While issued in 2005, this call to action is still very relevant today. The Call to Action calls on health care service providers, community leaders, advocates, and the public to work together to address the challenges facing people with disabilities in accessing health care and wellness services so that all people live long, healthy, productive lives. To read the Call to Action report in its entirety, visit www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/disabilities/calltoaction.
Wisconsin Consumer Guide to Healthcare
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services' (DHFS) has published this guide which covers such issues as obtaining proper health care, how to find a doctor, dentist or hospital, paying for care, insurance options, dealing with problems with your health care, who to contact if you have a complaint, getting the most out of your health care, self-care help and tips on talking to doctors, learning and coping, finding information, and getting help and support for your situation.
Wisconsin Consumer Guide to Healthcare: Paying for Health Care in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services' (DHFS) offers this guide to assist consumers with locating health programs in Wisconsin.
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