Idaho

IDAHO’S SUPPORT NETWORK

• Family Caregiver Support Program

Offers: Adult day, in-home, and overnight respite options, with no cap on services; other services include information and assistance, case management, education and training, counseling, support groups, family consultation, assistive technology, supplies, home modification/repairs, legal/financial consultation and transportation.

Funded by: National Family Caregiver Support Program under Older Americans Act Title III E; administered by the Idaho Commission on Aging and locally by area agencies on aging.

Eligibility: No minimum age for caregivers. Care recipients must be age 60 and older. Recipient must be physically or cognitively impaired to the extent that 24-hour care or supervision is required to receive respite or supplemental services.

• Senior Services Act Respite Program

Offers: Adult day, in-home, and overnight respite options, with no cap on services; other services include information and assistance, education and training, case management, counseling, support groups, family consultation, assistive technology, supplies, home modification/repairs, legal/financial consultation and transportation.

Funded by: State general revenue funds; administered by the Idaho Commission on Aging and locally by area agencies on aging.

Eligibility: No minimum age for caregivers. Care recipients must be age 60 and older and physically or cognitively impaired to the extent that 24-hour care or supervision is required.

• Home and Community-Based Services Aged and Disabled Waiver

Offers: Adult day and in-home respite service options, inhome respite is capped at $52 per day; other services include information and assistance, case management, education and training, counseling, support groups, family consultation, assistive technology, supplies, home modification/repairs, legal/financial consultation and transportation.

Funded by: Medicaid home and community-based services waiver; administered by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and locally by Regional Medicaid Units.

Eligibility: Caregivers must be at least age 18. Recipients must need nursing home level of care.

• Grandparent and Other Relative Caregiver Support Programs

Offers: Respite care and other support services designed to address the needs of grandparent and other relative caregivers of children. See www.gu.org/factsheets.asp for details on Idaho programs.

Funded by: Older Americans Act Title III E, state general revenues, and other sources. The Family Caregiver Support Program is administered by the Idaho Commission on Aging and locally by area agencies on aging.

Eligibility: Grandparent and other relative caregivers must be a minimum of age 60 and caring for a child age 18 or younger to receive services in the Family Caregiver Support Program.

CONSUMER DIRECTION

Consumer direction is a philosophy that accommodates people’s needs and preferences by offering them maximum choice and control over services they use. All three of Idaho’s caregiver support programs offer some level of consumer direction.

• Family Caregiver Support Program offers family members a choice of respite providers, a voucher or budget for respite and/or supplemental services, and direct payments to family members for the purchase of goods or services.
• Senior Services Act Respite Program offers family members a choice of respite providers, vouchers or budgets for respite and/or supplemental services, and direct payments to family members for the purchase of goods or services.
• HCBS Aged and Disabled Waiver offers family members a choice of respite providers and permits family members to be paid to provide personal care services.

LEGISLATION

None related to caregiving

Sources: National Association of State Units on Aging, e-mail survey of State Family Caregiver Support Program contacts, Washington, D.C., June 2005; National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren at Georgia State University, Research—Fact Sheets, Atlanta, Ga., 2005; Feinberg, Lynn Friss, et al., The State of the States in Family Caregiver Support: A 50-State Study, Washington, D.C.: Family Caregiver Alliance, National Center on Caregiving, 2004; Generations United, National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children, State Fact Sheets, Washington, D.C., October 2003; National Family Caregivers Association, Prevalence and Economic Value of Family Caregiving: State-by-State Analysis, Kensington, Md., 2000; U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.

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