Indiana

INDIANA’S SUPPORT NETWORK

• Family Caregiver Support Program

Offers: Adult day, in-home, and weekend/camp respite options; additional services include assistive technology, care management, emergency response, home modification/repairs, transportation, homemaker/chore/personal care, education and training, family consultation, family meetings, and support groups.

Funded by: National Family Caregiver Support Program under Older Americans Act Title III E; administered at the state level by the Indiana Division of Aging and locally by area agencies on aging.

Eligibility: Caregivers must be age 18 or older. Care recipients must be age 60 or older and have impairment in two or more activities of daily living for respite/supplemental services and a diagnosis of dementia or related disorder and/or require supervision.

• Aged and Disabled Medicaid Waiver

Offers: Adult day, in-home, overnight, and weekend/camp respite options, with variable caps on services; additional services include assistive technology; care management; emergency response; home modification/repairs, transportation, and homemaker/chore/personal care.

Funded by: Medicaid home and community-based services waiver; administered at the state level by the Indiana Division of Aging and locally by the Medicaid agency.

Eligibility: Caregivers must be age 18 or older. Care recipients may be any age and must have impairment in at least three activities of daily living and/or need nursing home level of care.

• Community and Home Options to Institutional Care (CHOICE)

Offers: In-home and weekend/camp respite options, with no cap on services; other services include caregiver education and training and legal and/or financial consultation.

Funded by: State general funds; administered by the Indiana Division of Aging and locally by area agencies on aging and the Medicaid agency.

Eligibility: Caregivers must be age 18 or older. Care recipients must be age 60 or older and have impairment in at least two activities of daily living.

• 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 Indiana programs.

Funded by: Older Americans Act Title III E, state general revenues, and other sources. The Family Caregiver Support Program is administered by the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration/Bureau of Aging and In-Home Services 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 Indiana caregiver support programs offer some level of consumer direction.

• The Family Caregiver Support Program offers a menu of services from which caregivers may choose, a voucher or budget for respite and/or supplemental services, direct payments to family members for the purchase of goods or services, a choice of respite providers, and family members may be paid to provide respite services.
• Aged and Disabled Medicaid Waiver permits family members to be paid to provide attendant care.
• CHOICE offers consumer-directed attendant 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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