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Extending Home Care Effectiveness through Expanded Use of Low-cost Adaptive Equipment: A Research and Demonstration Project
Principal Investigator:
Francis G. Caro, Ph.D. and Alison S. Gottlieb, Ph.D.
alison.gottlieb@umb.edu
Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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The major objective of this project was to show how the effectiveness of formal home care services can be extended through the systematic introduction of low-cost adaptive equipment. This research and demonstration project systematically encouraged use of low-cost adaptive equipment among elderly home care clients to increase their independence in personal care and household management. The project was carried out collaboratively between the Gerontology Institute of the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs. The demonstration took place at two homecare-coordinating agencies, and client interviews were conducted through the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Website: http://www.geront.umb.edu/proj_adaptive.htm
Publications
Gottlieb, A.S. and Caro, F.G. 2000.
"A Field Experiment in Aging Services: Opportunities and
Obstacles in the Quest for Achieving External and Internal Validity."
Sent to Evaluation and Program Planning, June.
Gottlieb, A.S. and Caro, F.G. 2000.
"Providing Low-Tech Assistive Equipment through Home Care
Services: The Massachusetts Assistive Equipment Demonstration."
Sent to Technology and Disability, June.
Gottlieb, A.S. and Caro, F.G. 2000.
"Research 'snapshots': Adaptive equipment helps elders."
Massachusetts Gerontology Association Newsletter, Spring.
Gottlieb, A.S. and Caro, F.G. 1999.
"Extending the effectiveness of home care through low-cost
adaptive equipment."
The Public Policy and Aging Report, 10(1): 13-15.
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