Expert guides about caregiving in Nevada from Brevy Care.
Nevada's Frail Elderly (FE) waiver can pay a relative as a family caregiver, and both it and the Physical Disabilities (PD) waiver can pay a spouse or guardian the person chooses for some services.
A Nevada family member who lives with and cares for a parent, spouse or other relative with dementia can be the paid caregiver through a Medicaid program.
Nevada Medicaid's self-directed Personal Care Services can pay a family caregiver your relative chooses as their aide, unless you're their spouse or legal guardian.
Nevada 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.
If you want to get paid to care for your spouse in Nevada, Medicaid's Personal Care Services program will not pay you, but a dementia-care waiver may in narrow cases, and the VA can.
About 55,000 Nevadans 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's, a count the Alzheimer's Association labels as of 2020, and 137,000 family caregivers in Nevada support people living with dementia.
Nevada pays many family members to provide care through Personal Care Services, and a 2025 Nevada Medicaid bulletin describes two ways some can be paid for skilled care.
If you are caring for a parent or spouse in Nevada and running low on your own reserves, respite care is the funded break you may not realize you can already get.
Families in Nevada can get paid to care for a parent, spouse or other relative through Medicaid home-care programs and, for veterans, VA caregiver benefits.