title: A description of independent living projects in the United States: various programmatic strategies for fiscal coping.
abstract: Independent living facilities in the United States provide numerous services to a large number of residential clients using a diversity of human service personnel. The facilities are often homogeneous in the range of services offered, the large nature of the facility, client population, staff, and sometimes budget. Most facilities feel that various styles of residential programs should be researched. A clearly defined service delivery model and fiscal models for prudent operations appears to be lacking in most agencies. Almost all the programs rent part of their building space to outside business interests. An absence of Federal money would eliminate or vastly reduce the services of most of the surveyed programs.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D003625:Data Collection; D005376:Financial Management / Q000191:economics; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States