Cash and Counseling Consumers: Early Experiences in Arkansas

Finds that many in the early treatment group cohort were in relatively poor health and had high levels of functional impairment. Still, one-third lived alone, and one-quarter had no unpaid informal caregivers. Most used the monthly cash allowance to hire a caregiver on their own; the majority of paid caregivers were relatives, and most were highly satisfied with the care they received, although substantial proportions said they needed more help than they were receiving.