The Effects of Cash and Counseling on the Primary Informal Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disabilities

The Effects of Cash and Counseling on the Primary Informal Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disabilities

Published: Apr 01, 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

Promoting the well-being of parents and other relatives who serve as informal caregivers to provide vital, unpaid personal care to children with developmental disabilities is an important policy objective. Furthermore, paid supportive services that children receive in addition to unpaid care could profoundly affect the informal caregivers who help them most. Treatment group caregivers provided as much overall assistance as did control group caregivers, yet they reported greater satisfaction with the child’s care and less physical strain on themselves. Treatment group caregivers were more likely to be working and less likely to say that caregiving caused great financial strain. They were also more likely to be very satisfied with how they were spending their own lives.

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