Centers for Independent Living (CIL) Pathfinder for Services & Programs for Older Americans

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Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the members of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Independent Living Management (RRTC-ILM) team in Buffalo, NY who provided valuable comments and suggestions during the development of this resource manual: Douglas Usiak, Maureen Moffat, John Moffat, Ron House, Mark Montgomery, and Vathsala Stone and Machiko Tomita from the SUNY at Buffalo.

Special thanks to the staff of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for Successful Aging (RERC-Tech-Aging), the University of Florida in Gainesville, who assisted on this project: William Mann for his guidance and suggestions, Jessica Johnson for assisting with researching and co-writing the manual, and Elena Casson for her efforts in editing the manual. Also, thanks go to Dennis McCarthy and Megan Witte for their unwavering support and to Minette Hendler and Geraldine Ross, consumer models, for the manualís cover page.

Thanks go to members of the aging network and independent living agencies for ideas generated for this manual during a collaborative meeting held at the International Conference on Aging in Washington, DC (Dec, 2003): Keri Benson, AoA, Margaret Campbell, NIDRR, James Billy, RSA, Thomas Kelley, RSA, Gwen Gillenwater, NCIL, and Anne-Marie Hughey, NCIL.

And special acknowledgment goes to the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), US Department of Education for their support and funding of this project.

Linda F. Fraas, MA, OTR/L, ATP
Coordinator, RRTC-ILM Project 3-B Elder Transition
Principal writer, Centers for Independent Living (CIL) Pathfinder for Services & Programs for Older Americans
Department of Rehabilitation Science
University at Buffalo

© 2004 - RRTC on Independent Living Management, 3108 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214 [a member of the Western New York Independent Living Project, Inc. family of agencies]Permission is given for duplication or reproduction either mechanically or electronically of any portion of this manual, proving that the following credit is given: Reproduced by permission from materials developed by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Independent Living Management (RRTC-ILM).This is a publication of the Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Independent Living Management which is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the US Department of Education under grant number H133B000002. The opinions contained in this publication are those of the grantee and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Education.