AUCD: Poster Symposium: Inclusive Community Living & Supports: Mobile Citizens: Medicaid Home and Community-based Services Users Desire and Pursue Cross-state Moves

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Brian Grossman, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, Disability Studies
Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND

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Description

Experiences of Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) users with physical disabilities who considered or pursued cross-state moves are analyzed. The term opportunity arc is introduced to describe pathways between opportunity and cross-state moves. Four distinct opportunity arcs are illustrated by participants' move stories; opportunity: 1) dreamed; 2) missed; 3) delayed; or 4) pursued. Obstacles to cross-state moves and the implications of these for policy and practice are discussed.

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