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Wisconsin, Medicaid-eligible persons at a nursing home level of care are
entitled to nursing home services. The Medicaid Home and Community-Based
Waiver programs, which provide long-term care to people in their own homes
or other non-institutional settings, has limited funding and is not an
entitlement. For many people this has meant that the only viable option
for needed long-term care services was to enter a nursing home.
Wisconsin is currently piloting a new way to provide health and
long-term care services, called Family Care. Family Care builds on the
principles of respect and consumer choice present in the Home and
Community-Based Waiver programs, but makes those services an entitlement,
just as nursing home services are an entitlement. This means that people
who need long-term care services can choose where they live while
receiving those services, and have timely access to both community-based
and institutional services.
Click on the link below to read some scenarios that illustrate some of
the improvements that Wisconsin hopes to achieve through Family Care. They
compare consumers’ experiences in Family Care pilot counties, where
there is an entitlement to home-based and community-based care, with
consumers’ experiences in counties that provide home and community-based
services but where there is an entitlement only for nursing home care.
The scenarios are based on the actual experiences of consumers in
Wisconsin’s long-term care system.
Consumer Scenarios: Comparing
Long-Term Care Systems in Wisconsin (PDF, 26 KB).
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Last Revised: July 13, 2011
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What is Family Care?
Who does Family Care
serve?
Aging and Disability
Resource Centers
Managed Care
Organizations
Where in Wisconsin
can you find Family
Care?
How do you apply?
Consumer resources
for questions
Real life stories
Why Family Care?
Being a Full Partner
in Family Care
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