Expert guides about caregiving in Massachusetts from Brevy Care.
Massachusetts Home Care Program consumer directed care (CDC) lets an older adult hire their own paid worker, and the state's letter to CDC consumers refers to CDC workers who are also family members.
You can be paid to care for a parent or other relative who lives with you in Massachusetts, through the state's Medicaid program.
An adult child can be paid to care for a parent at home through the MassHealth Personal Care Attendant program, which funds members with permanent or chronic disabilities to hire help.
If you want to get paid to care for your spouse in Massachusetts, the honest answer is that MassHealth's two paid-caregiver programs will not pay a husband or wife, but the VA will.
Senior transportation in Massachusetts is not one program you sign up for.
Dementia care in Massachusetts leans hard on family: the Alzheimer's Association counts 220,000 family caregivers supporting people living with dementia in the state.
If you're caring for an aging parent or spouse in Massachusetts, more help exists than most families realize, spread across programs run by several different agencies.
Respite care in Massachusetts is the planned break that lets an exhausted family caregiver keep going, and asking for one is not giving up.
Families in Massachusetts can get paid to care for a parent or other relative through Medicaid home-care programs, and VA caregiver benefits can pay a veteran's spouse or other family caregiver.
If you're a family caregiver in Massachusetts, caring for an aging parent or a disabled spouse, you may not realize that MassHealth can pay an adult child for that work.