Ten kinds of home care
Most families start with one and add another later. If you are not sure which fits, say what is happening at home and we will tell you.
Written for families in Sacramento who are working something out for the first time, usually in a hurry. Sourced, dated, and honest about what is not known.
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What it costs, and who pays for it.
There is a real published number for this region, and most pages that quote it quote it wrong. Here it is, where it came from, what the monthly figure quietly assumes, and how it compares to the alternatives.
Read the guideMost families arrive believing Medicare covers this. It does not. The program that does is Medi-Cal, and it has its own application and its own gate. Here is every source of money there is, in the words of the agencies that run them.
Read the guideWritten in the order families tend to reach them.
Two services, two different orders and two completely different bills. Families use the names interchangeably and then find out on the phone that they asked for the wrong one.
Read the guideMost agency websites in this region say the same eleven things. Here is what actually differs between them, which of it you can verify without asking, and the questions worth asking out loud.
Read the guideMost of what helps is not clinical. It is routine, a familiar room and the same face at the same hour. Here is what that looks like in practice, and what the research says about the person providing it.
Read the guideThe National Institute on Aging puts social isolation alongside a list of physical conditions, and names the risk factors that produce it. Most of them are practical, and several are fixable.
Read the guideMost families work this out during a visit, from small things that would not mean anything on their own. Here is what to look at, and what separates a bad week from a change.
Read the guideIt goes wrong for a reason that has nothing to do with care. You think you are discussing safety and they are hearing a conversation about whether they still get to run their own life.
Read the guideMoney and process, which are the two things families ask about before anything else. What home care costs in the Sacramento region and where that figure comes from, and which programs pay for care at home in California. Every figure is attributed to the survey or the government page it came from, and where a number is our own arithmetic on a published rate, the page says so.
The cost figures are for the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom region, which covers Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and El Dorado counties, so they apply across everywhere Guiding Souls works. The program rules are statewide California, except the In-Home Supportive Services wage, which is set county by county and is given for Sacramento and its neighbors.
No. Guiding Souls is a non-medical home care agency, not a benefits adviser, an insurance broker or a law firm. These pages tell you what the published sources say and link to them so you can check. For a decision about your own eligibility, go to the county, the VA or your insurer.
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