Medicaid's 'Cash and Counseling' Allows Pay for Family Caregivers
AgingCare.com's Marlo Sollitto wrote an informative piece on a new program that isn't up and running in all states, but we can hope it soon will be. Follow through with this article and see if the service will help you.
"Mary, a 74-year-old Florida woman, suffered a stroke. She needed help with bathing, dressing, food shopping, meal preparation, laundry and housekeeping. Her state Medicaid plan covered the cost of a home-health care worker to provide those services, but the local agencies were short-staffed and couldn’t send helpers on the schedule Anna needed."
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