The Connecticut Statewide Respite Care Program is funded by
the State Department of Social Services and operated in
partnership with the Connecticut Area Agencies on Aging and
the Alzheimer’s Association Chapter of Connecticut.
The cost of these services provided under the program was
$229,520.00.
Respite
care provides a break, or a time of caregiver relief,
from the constant physical and emotional stress
of caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease
or a related disorder. Caring for a person with dementia
is a stressful and demanding job; the effects of caregiving
are overwhelming. Caregivers are more susceptible than
the general population to depression, illness, physical
exhaustion, and emotional burnout. An occasional break
allows an exhausted caregiver to recoup both physically
and emotionally, and to find the strength to carry
on.
This program offers caregivers an assessment of services
needed, the development of a short-term care plan and
the purchase of services for the individual with dementia.
Eligible families may apply for daytime or overnight
respite care services including adult day care, home
health aide, homemaker/companion, skilled nursing care
or short-term nursing home care.
The program
offers payment of up to a maximum of $3,500 for respite
services per year. Applicants for the program
must have documentation from a physician stating that
the patient has a diagnosis of irreversible and deteriorating
dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. In order to
be eligible for the program, the individual with dementia
cannot have an income of more than $30,000 a year,
or have liquid assets of more than $80,000. Assets
include checking accounts, savings accounts, individual
retirement accounts, certificates of deposits, stocks,
or bonds, anything that can be liquidated for cash
within 20 days. The client’s home is not included
in the assets.
Additional
Information on the Statewide Respite Care Program
can be obtained by contacting Mary Ellen Girard,
respite Coordinator at 800-994-9422 or locally at 203-757-5449.
Respite Program Client Information for FFY’06
CLIENTS |
SERVICES |
|
Recertified from prior year 41 |
Adult
Day Care 56 |
| New
applications received 99 |
Homemaker/Companion 18 |
|
Clients receiving respite care services 121 |
Home Health Aide
23 |
|
Clients receiving case management services 121 |
Nursing Home Respite
0 |
|
Applications withdrawn 11 |
Live-in Home Health Aide 0 |
|
Applications pending (as of June 30) 5 |
Assisted Living
9 |
| Application denied |
Live-in Companion
0 |
| (over assets, no diagnosis, on
*CHCPE) 3 |
Personal Response System
3 |
| Co-pay waiver requests submission
9 |
Live-in
Homemaker 2 |
| Co-pay
waivers approved 7 |
Personal Care Assistant 23 |
| Co-pay
waivers denied 2 |
Registered Nurse 2 |
|
Clients Placed in a Nursing Home 11 |
Home
Delivered Meals 1 |
| Clients moved out of the 41-town area
3 |
|
| Clients deceased
8 |
|
| Clients accepted onto CHCPE
19 |
|
| Clients moved to Assisted Living
1 |
|
| Clients moved in with family 0 |
|
*CHCPE
refers to the Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders
Please note that clients receive more than one service.
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