Expert guides about caregiving in Maine from Brevy Care.
MaineCare Section 21 pays for home supports for Maine adults with an intellectual disability or autism, and it can pay a family member who provides some of them.
MaineCare Section 19 family caregiver pay can reach an adult child or other relative under Maine's proposed 2026 waiver text, through an agency or as a self-directed Attendant.
Maine 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 Maine?
Families in Maine give a great deal of dementia care, and you do not have to carry it alone or pay for all of it yourself.
Maine caregiver programs can pay family, and MaineCare's Section 19 waiver can pay a spouse who works as a Personal Support Specialist when the member needs extraordinary care.
To get paid as a family caregiver in Maine, the programs to check are MaineCare's Section 19 home and community benefits waiver and, for veteran families, VA's caregiver programs.
If you are caring for a parent or spouse in Maine, MaineCare, your Area Agency on Aging and the VA all fund respite care that can pay for your break.