North Dakota

NORTH DAKOTA’S SUPPORT NETWORK

• Family Caregiver Support Program

Offers: Adult day, in-home, overnight, and weekend/camp respite options, capped at $1,950 per year; other services include education and training, care management, personal care, information and assistance, legal and/or financial consultation, and support groups.

Funded by: National Family Caregiver Support Program under the Older Americans Act Title III E; administered by the North Dakota Department of Human Services/Aging Services Division and locally by regional human service centers.

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

• Aged and Disabled Waiver

Offers: Adult day, in-home, overnight, and weekend/camp respite options, capped at $565 per month; education and training also is provided to caregivers.

Funded by: Medicaid home and community-based services waiver; administered by the North Dakota Department of Human Services/Aging Services Division and locally by county social services offices.

Eligibility: Caregivers must be age 18 or older; no minimum age for care receivers, who must meet nursing home level of care criteria.

• Family Home Care

Offers: In-home, overnight, and weekend/camp respite options, capped at $565 per month.

Funded by: State and general funds; administered by the North Dakota Department of Human Services/Aging Services Division and locally by county social services offices.

Eligibility: Caregivers and must be age 18 or older; no minimum age for care receivers, who must be impaired in at least four activities of daily living or five instrumental 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 North Dakota programs.

Funded by: Older Americans Act Title III E, state general revenues, and other sources. The Family Caregiver Support Program is administered by the North Dakota Department of Human Services/Aging Services Division and locally by regional human service centers.

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 North Dakota caregiver support programs offer some level of consumer direction.

• Family Caregiver Support Program offers families a choice of respite providers, along with a menu of services to meet the unique needs and preferences of caregivers. Family members may be paid to provide respite care.
• Aged and Disabled Waiver offers families a choice of respite providers and of budgets for respite services. Family members may be paid to provide personal care and homemaker/chore services.
• Family Home Care offers families a choice of respite providers and budgets for respite services, and family members may 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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