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A number of key factors that limit the quality and use of formal community-based services in rural communities are documented in the literature. These barriers include a lack of program funding, an inadequate workforce supply, the geographic distance between service-providers and clients, and caregivers’ reluctance to use formal services and their lack of awareness and understanding about available services (Infeld, 2004; Morgan et al., 2002). Rural caregivers are less likely to use most formal services that might assist them in their caregiving efforts, supporting the overall observation that services are less available in rural areas (Easter Seals and National Alliance for Caregiving, 2006).
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Incorporated into the Older Americans Act as the National Family Caregiver Support Program, Title III, Part E, through reauthorization in 2000.
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Researchers did not have data from POMP caregivers. Only data from self-directed caregivers were analyzed.
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 The authors would like to acknowledge Beverly Littlefield, Mary Ball, and Robert Adelman for helpful feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript.
We also wish to thank Michael Lepore, Ramani Sambhara, Keisha Jackson, and Mary Ball, researchers at the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University, who participated in the Consumer-Directed Care Evaluation Study.
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Greene, M., Perkins, M.M., Scott, K., Burt, C. (2011). State Responsibilities to Support Rural Caregiving: The Georgia Example. In: Talley, R., Chwalisz, K., Buckwalter, K. (eds) Rural Caregiving in the United States. Caregiving: Research, Practice, Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0302-9_12
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