Expert guides about caregiving in Alabama from Brevy Care.
The Alabama Personal Choices program lets families be paid to care for a parent, spouse or other relative at home when that person is on an Alabama Medicaid home-care waiver.
Alabama's Medicaid Elderly and Disabled Waiver can pay a family member, including a qualified spouse, as a caregiver when the person self-directs care through Personal Choices.
Alabama has no single senior-transportation program, so when an older adult stops driving, the real question is which of several separate systems covers the trip.
You can get paid to care for your spouse in Alabama through Medicaid's self-directed Personal Choices option, if your spouse qualifies for it and you meet its worker requirements.
Dementia care in Alabama falls to about 222,000 family and other unpaid caregivers, and you do not have to carry it alone or pay for all of it yourself.
Alabama caregiver programs can help pay a family member to provide care.
Families in Alabama can get paid to care for a parent, spouse or other relative through Medicaid home-care programs and, for veterans, VA caregiver benefits.
If you are caring for a parent or spouse in Alabama, funded respite care that can pay for your break is available through Medicaid, a federal family caregiver program, and the VA.