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Personal Support aide gives Mother a bath, does home chores, and cooks
breakfast. The Emergency Response button provides her safety and security
when alone. Mother is not able to cook anymore, so Home Delivered Meals are
appreciated. If not for CCSP services, she would be in a nursing home.” Caregiver son of a female consumer with congestive heart failure, hypertension and arthritis, age 97, Lyons, GA |
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Funding For Home And Community Based Services Why this budget item is requested: Community Care Services Program (CCSP) CCSP continues to be a cost effective long-term care program option. Informal caregivers, often family or friends, participate in the care giving for CCSP clients, working with care coordinators to determine the needs that the informal caregivers are meeting and identify the gaps that CCSP fills. A majority of CCSP clients pay a cost share, participating personally in the financial responsibility for their care. An appropriation of state funds in the amount of $4.2 million would provide the “Maintenance of Need” to sustain and expand services to existing clients. State funds of $2.5 million will permit individuals on the waiting list for CCSP to receive services or existing clients to receive expanded services. Total State funds requested for CCSP services during Fiscal Year 2009 are $6.7 million. Non-Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) The goal of the program is to provide supportive services to older Georgians, their caregivers and families, to enable them to remain at home and manage their care, promoting health, independence and self-reliance. At an average cost of $2,000 per client, an appropriation of $4,000,000 would allow 2,000 additional people who are on the waiting list to receive HCBS services. What This Budget Item Would Do: |
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