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News and Information
Other DADS resources
Brochures and posters
Caregiving
- Caregiving Resources (PDF) offers information for employers about caregiving resources available through their local area agency on aging.
- Information and Services for Caregivers provides information and resources for people who are caring for a person 60 or older and for a grandparents 60 or older who are caring for a grandchild 18 or younger. Spanish
- What is Caregiving (PDF) provides an explanation of what caregiving consists of and who the caregivers are.
Community Living Options Information Process
- Community Living Options Information Process Instrument (MS Word) — Local authority staff use this form to document a summary of the Community Living Options Information Process.
- Community Living Options Information Process procedures (MS Word) — This document outlines how local authorities are to use the Community Living Options Information Process instrument.
- Making Informed Choices: Community Living Options Information Process (PDF) — Local authority staff can use this document to help explain options in the community to residents of state supported living centers. PDF in Spanish
- Making Informed Choices: Community Living Options Information Process for Legally Authorized Representatives of Residents in State Supported Living Centers (PDF) — Local authority staff can use to help explain options in the community to legally authorized representatives of state school residents. PDF in Spanish
Consumer Directed Services
- Consumer Directed Services Option Employer Manual (PDF) is designed to help people who choose to use the Consumer Directed Services Option to manage their services.
- Consumer Directed Services: It's Your Choice. The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services offers people with disabilities home and community based services and supports to help them stay as independent as possible. Spanish
- It's Your Choice: Consumer Directed Services (PDF) explains how the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services offers people living with disabilities home and community based services and supports options to help them stay as independent as possible. PDF in Spanish
- It's Your Choice: Deciding How to Manage Your Services. Deciding how to manage your home services and supports is an important task. You have choices. Each choice has advantages, depending on what's most important to you. Answering some simple questions about your lifestyle and personal preferences may help you decide which option is best for you. Spanish
- It's Your Choice: Deciding How to Manage Your Personal Assistance Services. Deciding how to manage your home services and support is an important task. You have choices. Each choice has advantages, depending on what's most important to you. Answering some simple questions about your lifestyle and personal preferences may help you decide which option is best for you. Spanish
- It's Your Choice: Deciding How to Manage Your Personal Assistance Services (PDF) explains how the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services offers people living with disabilities home and community based services and supports to help them stay as independent as possible. PDF in Spanish
Consumer information
- A Texas Guide to Adult Guardianship (PDF) — With this guide, gain a better understanding of the ins and outs of guardianship. PDF in Spanish
- Advance Care Planning — Your Personal Health Care Choices can help guide people through the process of making advance health care decisions.
- Advance Care Planning — Frequently Asked Questions About Advance Care Planning and End-of-life Care addresses questions many people have about making advance health care decisions.
- Community Based Alternatives (CBA): Options to Nursing Facility Care (PDF) — The Community Based Alternatives program allows eligible people to receive services in their own homes, foster homes or assisted living settings. PDF in Spanish
- Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities Program: Promoting Communication and Independence includes information about how people who are deaf blind with multiple disabilities can become more communicative and independent. Spanish
- How to use the Quality Reporting System: Nursing Homes — The Quality Reporting System website has information about nursing homes. Each home is given a quality rating based on the results of its most recent licensing inspection, complaint investigations and resident assessment data. Spanish
- How to use the Quality Reporting System: Medicaid Waiver Programs — The Quality Reporting System website has information about long-term service and supports providers. You can use it to find information about Medicaid waiver programs. Spanish
- The Know Your Options (PDF) flyer gives a brief overview of the Money Follows the Person program. PDF in Spanish
- Money Follows the Person to Community Living (PDF) discusses how Texans who are eligible for Medicaid and living in a nursing home can choose an appropriate community setting and receive community services and supports. PDF in Spanish
- Money Follows the Person (PDF) poster. PDF in Spanish
- The Texas Ombudsman Program trains and certifies advocates for quality care in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. An ombudsman is dedicated to enhancing the lives of residents and is independent of the facility. Spanish
- What Is an intellectual disability? In Texas, intellectual disability is defined as a usually permanent condition originating sometime between birth and age 18.
- Your Guide to the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program includes information about the state of Texas having the right to ask for money back from your estate after you die if you received Medicaid long-term services. Spanish
- Your Health Care Guide (PDF), which is published by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, tells people how to use their Medicaid benefits.
Consumer and resident's rights
- Assisted Living Facility Resident's Bill of Rights (PDF) outlines the rights of persons who live in an assisted living facility in Texas. PDF in Spanish
- How to file a complaint outlines how to voice your complaints about a long-term care facility. Spanish
- Nursing facility rights poster (PDF) — Residents of Texas nursing homes have all the rights, benefits, responsibilities and privileges granted by the Constitution and laws of this state and the United States. PDF in Spanish
- Nursing facility rights flyer (PDF) — Residents of Texas nursing facilities have all the rights, benefits, responsibilities and privileges granted by the Constitution and laws of this state and the United States. PDF in Spanish
- Long-Term Care Ombudsman poster (PDF) — If you have a concern or question, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program can help. PDF in Spanish
- Your Rights in DADS Community Programs (PDF) tells you about some general rights and responsibilities you may have if you are receiving services in a DADS community program. PDF in Spanish
- Your Rights in the Home and Community-based Services (HCS) Program (PDF) handbook tells you about the rights and privileges you have if you are receiving services in offered through the Home and Community-based Services program. PDF in Spanish
- Your Rights in an ICF/ID Facility (PDF) handbook tells you about the rights and privileges you have if you are receiving services in programs offered in the community through the Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with an Intellectual Disability program. PDF in Spanish
- Your Rights in Local Authority Services (PDF) handbook tells you about the rights and privileges you have if you are receiving services offered by a local authority. PDF in Spanish
- Your Rights in a State Supported Living Center (PDF) handbook tells you about the rights and privileges you have if you are receiving services in programs offered through a state supported living center. PDF in Spanish
- Your Rights in the Texas Home Living Program (PDF) handbook explains the rights and privileges consumers have when receiving services through the Texas Home Living program. PDF in Spanish
Long-term care providers
- Assisted Living Facility Information brochure explains the variety of assisted living facilities available in Texas, who they care for, and the services they provide.
- Medicaid Recipients' Trust Fund: Guidelines for Setting Up Accounting Records (PDF) outlines simple bookkeeping methods that long-term care facilities may use if asked to administer the trust fund of a Medicaid recipient in their care.
Miscellaneous
- October is Persons with Disabilities History and Awareness Month. Join us in celebrating achievements of Texans and other Americans with disabilities who made significant contributions to the state, and who have led the way in the disability rights movement. Flier in PDF | Bookmark in PDF
Quality monitoring
- Continence Promotion enables residents to achieve assisted continence. It promotes resident dignity, improves resident function, mitigates the risk of falls, lowers housekeeping costs and can even boost employee morale.
- Quality Monitoring Program: A Guide for Provider Staff (PDF) outlines the purpose and goals of the DADS Quality Monitoring Program.
- Quality Monitoring Program: A Guide for Regulatory Staff (PDF) outlines the purpose and goals of the DADS Quality Monitoring Program.
- Quality Monitoring Program: Provider Handbook (PDF) provides information about the activities of the Quality Monitoring Program including the long-term care quality review process, the early warning system and the quality monitoring program.
Texercise
- Texercise Individual Handbook for lifelong health and wellness. Spanish
- Daily exercise log to track sets and repetitions of endurance, strength/balance, and flexibility activities. Part of the Texercise Handbook. Spanish
- Daily physical activity log to track the type of activities in which you engage. Part of the Texercise Handbook. Spanish
- Fit for the Health of It! fact sheets are on health topics you can use for fitness and nutrition discussions. Also available in Spanish.
- Measuring Your Progress (PDF) log that tracks monthly progress in building strength, endurance, and balance. Part of the Texercise Handbook.
- Motivational posters to help promote health and fitness.
Volunteer
- Get Involved: Volunteer and Community Engagement discusses the various ways in which DADS provides people, organizations and communities with opportunities to enhance the lives and services delivery needs of older Texans and people with disabilities.
- The Texas Ombudsman Program trains and certifies advocates for quality care in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. An ombudsman is dedicated to enhancing the lives of residents and is independent of the facility. Spanish
Updated: April 12, 2012