6.3: Persons with Disabilities

Increase the independence and quality of life of persons with disabilities, including those with long-term care needs

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How We Will Accomplish Our Objective - Support continuing attention to the Olmstead Supreme Court decision on community integration under the Americans with Disabilities Act and provide technical assistance to states in its implementation. - Support tax and respite care benefits for home caregivers. - Provide caregiver training and link caregivers to support networks. - Facilitate development of new long-term care insurance products to give Americans more choice in covering long-term care needs. - Support tax deductions for long-term care insurance. - Continue attending to the President’s New Freedom Initiative and solutions identified in the Department’s report to the President entitled “Delivering on a Promise.” - Identify and eliminate barriers to community living for persons with disabilities. - Allow states and tribes to demonstrate new options of community-based services, including options to children’s residential treatment facilities. - Help communities develop comprehensive community-based, long-term care services. - Develop and disseminate financing and service delivery models that improve the coordination and integration of home health, rehabilitation, and nursing facility services. - Promote policies that empower individuals needing long-term care to be involved in the planning and direction of their services. - Improve the long-term care data infrastructure to better monitor the demand for and use of services and transitions across residential care settings.

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