Disability Services in Minnesota

Guides on disability services in Minnesota

• CADI waiver housing in Minnesota: where the waiver can pay for you to live — The CADI waiver pays for services in the community instead of a nursing facility — but it never pays the rent. Here are the four kinds of home a CADI resident usually lives in, what the waiver covers in each, who pays room and board, and how a family or a case manager finds a home that is actually taking CADI residents this month.
• Group homes in Minnesota: what the term actually means, who licenses them, and how to find an opening — "Group home" is not a Minnesota license. It is what people call at least six different licensed settings — adult foster care, community residential settings, board and lodge, supervised living facilities, ICF/DDs and IRTS programmes. Here is how to tell them apart, who pays for what, and how a family or a case manager finds one with an opening.
• Adult foster care in Minnesota: the option most families never hear about — A licensed home in an ordinary neighbourhood, with a small number of residents and round-the-clock support. It is licensed by DHS rather than the Department of Health, funded mainly through Medicaid waivers, and almost invisible on national care sites.
• How to pay for long-term care in Minnesota — Medicare pays for almost none of it. Minnesota's real payers are private funds, Medical Assistance, the Elderly Waiver, Alternative Care, long-term care insurance and VA benefits — and four of them refuse to pay room and board. Here is the matrix.