Expert guides about caregiving in Connecticut from Brevy Care.
The Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders (CHCPE) can pay a live-in relative who is not a "legally liable relative" to care for a parent 65 or older through its Adult Family Living service.
If you care for a parent or other relative on Connecticut Medicaid, Community First Choice lets them hire their own personal care attendant, and certain relatives and friends can fill that paid job.
In Connecticut, the Personal Care Assistance Waiver covers home care for adults with a physical disability and can sometimes pay a live-in adult child or other relative to give that care.
For Connecticut families caring for a parent at home, Adult Family Living, a service in two Medicaid home-care programs, may pay the parent's live-in caregiver a stipend.
Connecticut 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.
Can you get paid to care for your spouse in Connecticut? For Medicaid, the honest answer is almost always no, but that is not where the story ends.
Connecticut runs a Statewide Respite Program built for caregivers of people with Alzheimer's or a related dementia, plus a home care program that helps eligible people 65 and older stay at home.
If you're caring for an aging parent or another relative in Connecticut, the state's Adult Family Living program pays a stipend to a caregiver who lives in the home with the older adult.
Respite care for Connecticut family caregivers can come through the federal National Family Caregiver Support Program and the state's Statewide Respite Program for dementia caregivers.
Connecticut offers several legitimate ways to get paid as a family caregiver, and the one built around a live-in caregiver is Adult Family Living.