New Mexico

NEW MEXICO’S SUPPORT NETWORK

• Family Caregiver Support Program

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

Funded by: National Family Caregiver Support Program under Older Americans Act Title III E, federal Alzheimer’s Disease Grant from the U.S. Administration on Aging, state general funds, and client contributions; administered by the New Mexico Aging & Long-Term Services Department and locally by area agencies on aging.

Eligibility: Caregivers must be age 18 or older; care recipients must be age 60 or older. Care recipients must 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.

• Disabled and Elderly Home and Community-Based Services Waiver

Offers: In-home respite services, capped at 336 hours per year; other services include education and training and information and assistance.

Funded by: Medicaid home and community-based services waiver and state general funds; administered by New Mexico Human Services Department and locally by the Medicaid agency.

Eligibility: Caregivers must be age 18 or older; no minimum age requirements for care receivers who must be impaired in at least three activities of daily living and/or meet a 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 New Mexico programs.

Funded by: Older Americans Act Title III E, state general revenues, and other sources. The Family Caregiver Support Program is administered by the New Mexico State Agency 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. In New Mexico, one program offers consumer-directed options.

• The Family Caregiver Support Program provides vouchers or budgets for respite and/or supplemental services and gives families a choice of respite providers.

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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