Expert guides about caregiving in Virginia from Brevy Care.
If you care for a relative with a developmental disability, Virginia Medicaid's developmental disability waivers can pay an approved family member to help with personal care at home.
If your parent has Virginia Medicaid and needs nursing-home-level care, the Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus (CCC Plus) Waiver can pay you, an adult child, to give their personal care at home.
You may be able to 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.
An estimated 164,000 Virginians age 65 and older were living with Alzheimer's in 2020, and about 333,000 family caregivers across the Commonwealth support people living with dementia.
Virginia caregiver programs include Medicaid consumer direction, respite grants, VA benefits, and, under 2025 DMAS rules, limited pay for a spouse or parent of a minor.
Virginia families can draw on several funded sources of respite care, and several of them don't require Medicaid.
A family member in Virginia can be a paid caregiver for a parent or other relative through Medicaid home-care programs or, for a veteran, Veterans Affairs caregiver benefits.