Did you know?

Source: The ARC of the United States

Did you know?

- There are over 300,000 people in the United States who are waiting for the appropriate services.

- The average wait to receive services is between 8 - 10 years.

- Government statistics report an 11% increase from 2006 to 2007 in the number of people reported by states to be on waiting lists.*

- Of the 2.8 million invidividuals living with a family caregiver, 716, 212 individuals are being cared for by someone over 60-years-old.

- Elderly parents are told the only way service would become available to their child is if they were to die. And even then, that adult child could face the prospect of being put in an institution due to the lack of available services.

- The Medicaid program has a long standing bias in favor of funding institutional, rather than less expensive community-based, services. Community-based services are cost effective and allow the individual to participate in and contribute to society, rather than be put in seclusion.

* Recent data from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.



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