YOU CAN GET CARE IN YOUR HOME
If you are living in your home, Medicaid calls you living “in the community.” Medicaid will pay for certain services in your home if you qualify. Many states, as in Colorado, have a program called “HCBS,” which stands for “home and community based services.”
HCBS will pay for the following in-services:
• Case management
• Personal care services
• Respite care services (which means care for the patient in a nursing home for a few days so that the home caregiver can get a break)
• Adult day health services
• Homemaker and home health aide services
• Habilitation (which means assistance to people to help with mobility, social interaction, self care, basic safety skills, housekeeping, personal hygiene, healthcare and financial management)
The Colorado Medicaid program now allows folks who are in a nursing home the option
of living in a regular home and away from the institutional setting. They will get the
same level of care as they would have gotten in the nursing home and still be covered by Medicaid to help pay the cost of the in-home care. This is a wonderful option that is relatively new for Colorado Medicaid beneficiaries.
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