South Dakota

SOUTH DAKOTA’S SUPPORT NETWORK

• Family Caregiver Support Program

Offers: Adult day, in-home, overnight or weekend/camp respite options, capped at $4,000 per year; other services include supplies, emergency response, assistive technology, homemaker/chore/personal care, care management, education and training, family consultation and family meetings, home modification/repairs, information and assistance, legal and/or financial consultation, support groups and transportation.

Funded by: National Family Caregiver Support Program under Older Americans Act Title III E and client contributions; administered at the state and local levels by the South Dakota Department of Social Services/Office of Adult Services and Aging.

Eligibility: No minimum age for caregivers; care receivers 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.

• Home and Community-Based Elderly Waiver

Offers: Adult day respite, with no cap on services; additional services include supplies, emergency response, and homemaker/chore/ personal care.

Funded by: Medicaid home and community based services waiver; administered jointly by the South Dakota Department of Social Services and the state’s Medicaid agency.

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

• 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 South 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 South Dakota Department of Social Services/Office of Adult Services and 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. One South Dakota caregiver support program offers consumer direction.

• Family Caregiver Support Program offers caregivers a menu of services, vouchers or budgets for respite and/or supplemental services, gives families a choice of respite providers, and may pay family members to provide respite.

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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