When Hiring In-Home Caregivers, Consider the Legal as well as Personal Issues
Under New Jersey law, the field of home care services is regulated by the NewJjersey Department of Health, and the copious regulations can be found in N.J.A.C. 10:60. Home health aides and home health nurses are credentialed by the NJ Board of Nursing. The requirements for licensure of Home health care agencies can be found at N.J.A.C. 8:42, Home Health Agency Licensing Standards. By 2017, all...
The V.A. permits family caregivers to be paid, but watch out if applying for NJ Medicaid
The Veterans Administration provides a Pension and Aid and Attendance benefit for wartime veterans or their widows/widowers who have low assets and whose income is below the MAPR after deducting their uncompensated monthly health care expenses. Throughout the country, vast numbers of elders are being cared for by family members. Often those family members have given up their fulltime work...