How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey

How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey

Published: Jul 30, 2005
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research
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Associated Project

Evaluation of Three Cash and Counseling Programs

Time frame: 1996-2005

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

University of Maryland

Authors

Randall Brown

Barbara Phillips

This report estimates the effects of Cash and Counseling on caregivers who were providing the most unpaid assistance to adult beneficiaries at the time beneficiaries volunteered for the demonstration. Despite variations in design and implementation across states, all three demonstration programs positively affected the well-being of caregivers. On average, caregivers of treatment group members were less likely than their control group counterparts to report high levels of physical and financial strain. They were also less likely to say caregiving impinged on their privacy, social lives, and job performance.

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