Expert guides about caregiving in Arizona from Brevy Care.
If you have been told you cannot get paid to care for your spouse in Arizona, the good news is that you often can.
When an older adult in Arizona stops driving, the real question is which of several separate systems covers each trip, because the state has no single senior-transportation program.
Dementia care in Arizona falls largely to family, and you do not have to carry it alone or pay for all of it yourself.
Arizona pays family members to provide care through ALTCS, and a spouse can be paid up to 40 hours a week. Add respite grants and VA benefits, and most families have real options.
If you are caring for a parent or spouse in Arizona and running low on your own reserves, respite care is the funded break you may not realize you can already get.
If you want to become a paid family caregiver in Arizona, you have more legitimate ways to do it than in most states, including a rare option to be paid for caring for your own spouse.