Expert guides about caregiving in Missouri from Brevy Care.
If you want to get paid to care for your spouse in Missouri, the surprising truth is that the state's self-directed Medicaid program will not pay a husband or wife.
When a parent in Missouri stops driving, the hard part isn't finding a ride; it's that Missouri has no single senior-transportation program, just a menu of separate systems for different trips.
More than 122,000 Missourians are living with Alzheimer's, and 227,000 family members carry the work of caring for them.
Missouri caregiver programs can pay many family members to provide care at home, though the state's main Medicaid pathway pays an adult child, a sibling, or another relative, and not a spouse.
Missouri family caregivers can access funded respite care through Consumer Directed Services (CDS), the Aged and Disabled Waiver, and free federal caregiver grants.
Missouri pays family members to provide in-home care, but it runs the money through one main program with one rule that surprises most families.