Expert guides about caregiving in Florida from Brevy Care.
If you have searched for how to get paid to care for your spouse in Florida, you have probably been told no.
When an older adult in Florida stops driving, the question isn't whether rides exist.
You are not alone. There are about 877,000 of you in Florida.
If you are a Florida family caregiver, you may have found this page mid-crisis: a fall, a hospital discharge, or the slow realization that an aging parent's home in Naples or Tampa is no longer safe.
Florida caregiver resources are scattered across a dozen agencies that don't reference each other, so the caregiver who just heard "dementia" rarely knows which number to dial first.
Florida is one of the few states in America where Medicaid will pay a spouse to care for their husband or wife.
Florida caregiver programs run in five separate streams, and most families never learn they exist because no single agency owns them.
Florida has no single statewide application for respite care, so family caregivers assemble it themselves from ten separate funding rails, none of which connect to each other.