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Title:
Extending the Effectiveness of Home Care Through Expanded Use of Low-Cost Assistive Equipment
Brief Description:
Clients in the Massachusetts Home Care Program are encouraged to make greater use of low-cost
adaptive devices to assist them with dressing, bathing, meal preparation, and the like. A
quasi-experimental research design is being used to determine the extent to which the project
leads to increased use of equipment and greater client effectiveness in coping with daily
living needs. The project is being conducted in collaboration with the Massachusetts
Executive Office of Elder Affairs, two Aging Services Access Points, and the UMass Boston
Center for Survey Research.
Funding:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Key Working Papers & Publications:
- Gottlieb, A.S. & Caro, F.G. (2001). Providing low-tech assistive equipment through
home care services: The Massachusetts assistive equipment demonstration. Technology and
Disability, 13(1), 41-53.
- Caro, F.G. & Gottlieb, A.S. (2001). A field experiment in aging services:
Opportunities and obstacles in the quest for achieving external and internal validity.
Evaluation and Program Planning, 24(3), 249-256.
- Providing Low-Cost Assistive Equipment Through Home Care Services: The Massachusetts
Assistive Equipment Demonstration (April 2000)
- Promoting Assistive Equipment Resource Manual for ASAPs
- Gottlieb, Alison S., & Caro, Francis. (1999). Extending the Effectiveness of Home
Care Through Low-Cost Adaptive Equipment. The Public Policy and Aging Report, 10(1),
13-15.
- Gottlieb, Alison. (1998). Extending Home Care Effectiveness through Expanded Use of
Low-Cost Adaptive Equipment. Gerontology Institute working paper.
Principal Investigators:
Francis Caro, Ph.D. & Alison Gottlieb, Ph.D.
Contact:
alison.gottlieb@umb.edu
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