Expert guides about caregiving in Louisiana from Brevy Care.
Louisiana 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.
Most Louisiana families are told no at first, but you genuinely can get paid to care for your spouse in Louisiana. The two doors that do pay a spouse are Monitored In-Home Caregiving and the VA.
Dementia care in Louisiana falls largely to family, and you do not have to carry it alone or pay for all of it yourself.
Louisiana pays family members to provide care through the Community Choices Waiver, and a spouse can be paid as a live-in caregiver under Monitored In-Home Caregiving.
If you are a family caregiver in Louisiana, the state funds respite care that can pay a worker you choose, even a live-in family member. Respite is not walking away from someone you love.
In Louisiana, the realistic way to get paid for caring for a parent is to enroll them in a Medicaid program that pays a family member as the worker. You don't get a check from the state directly.