Expert guides about caregiving in Virginia from Brevy Care.
You can get paid to care for your spouse in Virginia, but the path is narrower than the one open to an adult child or a sibling.
When an older adult in Virginia stops driving, the hard part isn't that rides don't exist, it's that there's no single senior transportation program in Virginia.
About 164,000 Virginians are living with Alzheimer's, and family members provide most of their day-to-day care.
Virginia caregiver programs now include permanent pay for a spouse who provides extraordinary care, on top of consumer-directed pay for most other relatives, respite grants, and VA benefits.
Virginia has more funded respite care options than most families realize.
Virginia pays family members to provide in-home care through Medicaid, but you do not get a check from the state.