Support for family caregivers

The program offers five categories of resources and services to family caregivers to best meet the range of their needs, including:

• Information about available resources and services within their communities
• Assistance in gaining access to supportive community services
• Individual counseling, support groups and caregiver education/training to assist caregivers in making decisions and solving problems relating to their roles
• Respite care to offer temporary, substitute supports or living arrangements for care recipients in order to provide a brief period of relief or rest for caregivers
• Supplemental services, provided on a limited basis, to complement the care provided by caregivers (i.e. assistive technologies, emergency response systems, grab bars for bathrooms, incontinence supplies)

Eligibility

Am I eligible to receive services?

• An older individual (60 and over)
• An individual of any age with Alzheimer’s Disease or a related neurological disorder.

• The primary caregiver (other than the parent) who lives with and is the informal provider of in-home and community care to a child under the age of 18 because the biological or adoptive parents are unable or unwilling to serve as the primary caregivers of the child
• The parent, grandparent, or other relative by blood, arriage, or adoption, of an individual who is 18 years or older with a disability
• Lives with the child who is not more than 18 years of age or who is an adult child between 19 and 59 years of age with a disability. In the situation when it is an adult child with a disability, the caregiver cannot be the parent.