"Family Care," was designed to provide cost-effective, comprehensive and flexible long-term care that will foster consumers’ independence and quality of life, while recognizing the need for interdependence and support.
Family Care, authorized by the Governor and Legislature in 1998, serves people with physical disabilities, people with developmental disabilities and frail elders, with the specific goals of:
Giving people better choices about where they live and what kinds of services and supports they get to meet their needs.
Improving access to services.
Improving quality through a focus on health and social outcomes.
Creating a cost-effective system for the future.
Family Care has two major organizational components:
Aging and disability resource centers (ADRCs), designed to be a single entry point where older people and people with disabilities and their families can get information and advice about a wide range of resources available to them in their local communities. Some of the services they provide include: - Information and Assistance - Long-Term Care Options Counseling - Benefits Counseling - Emergency Response - Prevention and Early Intervention - Access to the Family Care Benefit
Managed care organizations (MCOs), which manage and deliver the new Family Care benefit, which combines funding and services from a variety of existing programs into one flexible long-term care benefit, tailored to each individual’s needs, circumstances and preferences. Some of the services they provide include: - People Receive Services Where They Live - People Receive Interdisiplinary Care Management - People Participate in Determining the Service They Receive - People Receive Family Care Services that Include: - Long-Term Care Services - Health Care Services - People Receive Help Coordinating Their Primary Health Care - People Receive Help Coordinating Their Primary Health Care - People Receive Services to Help Achieve Their Employment Objectives - People Receive the Services that Best Achieve Their Outcomes
For more information about Family Care, refer to the Managed Long-Term Care Expansion website.
