Expert guides about caregiving in New York from Brevy Care.
If you are caring for a husband or wife in New York and you are trying to get paid to care for your spouse, you have probably already been told no by someone. That answer is half right.
When an older adult in New York stops driving, rides do exist, but New York has no single senior-transportation program. The trip in front of you decides which of several separate systems covers it.
You're a New York caregiver. You know you need help. You don't yet know what to call it.
> Save this number first: NYS Kinship Navigator (KAN), 1-877-454-6463, available weekdays (call for current hours), nysnavigator.org.
If you are a New York dementia caregiver, the single fastest thing that helps today is one free phone call: 1-800-272-3900, the Alzheimer's Association 24/7 helpline.
A daughter managing her mother's dementia in Queens. A husband navigating Managed Long Term Care enrollment in Buffalo. A grandmother in Onondaga raising the grandchildren.
There is no single New York respite program: respite care in New York is a patchwork of nine-plus funding streams, and the one number that opens the most doors is NY Connects at 1-800-342-9871.
If you are caring for an aging parent, a disabled adult child, or a wartime veteran in New York, you can get paid as a family caregiver.