Nevada

NEVADA’S SUPPORT NETWORK

• Family Caregiver Support Program

Offers: In-home respite, with no cap on services; other services include information and assistance, education and training, support groups, and counseling.

Funded by: National Family Caregiver Support Program under Older Americans Act Title III E; administered at the state and local levels by the Nevada Department of Human Resources/Division for Aging Services.

Eligibility: No minimum age for caregivers; care recipients must be age 60 or older.

• Community Home-Based Initiatives Program

Offers: Adult day, in-home, overnight and weekend/camp respite options, with no cap on services; other services include homemaker/ chore/personal care.

Funded by: Medicaid home and community-based services waiver, state general funds, tobacco funds, and client contributions; administered at the state and local levels by the Nevada Department of Human Resources/Division for Aging Services.

Eligibility: No minimum age for caregivers; care recipients must be age 65 or older and meet nursing home level of care criteria.

• Independent Living Grant

Offers: Adult day, in-home, overnight, and weekend camp respite options, with no cap on services; other services include assistive technology, care management, counseling, education and training, home modification/ repairs, information and assistance, homemaker/chore/personal care, legal and/or financial consultation, and transportation.

Funded by: Tobacco funds; administered at the state and local levels by the Nevada Department of Human Resources/Division for Aging Services.

Eligibility: No minimum age for caregivers. Care recipients must be age 60 or older.

• Community-Based Care Caregiving Training

Offers: Education and training services only.  Funded by: State general funds; administered at the state and local levels by the Nevada Department of Human Resources/Division for Aging Services.

Eligibility: No minimum age or functional status requirements for caregivers or care receivers.

• 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 Nevada programs.

Funded by: Older Americans Act Title III E, state general revenues, and other sources. The Family Caregiver Support Program is administered at the state and local levels by the Nevada Department of Human Resources.

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. Two Nevada caregiver support programs offer some level of consumer direction.

• Community Home-Based Initiatives Program offers families a choice of respite providers and a menu of services from which to choose.
• Independent Living Grant Program also offers families a choice of respite providers and a menu of services from which to choose, as well as vouchers or budgets for respite 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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