LOUISIANA

Community Choices Waiver: serves seniors and persons with adult onset disabilities as an alternative to nursing facility care. Based on a standardized assessment, each recipient is provided a budget based on acuity to create an individual service package. The CCW contains a wide array of services including: support coordination, nursing and skilled therapy assessments and services, in-home monitoring systems, home modifications and assistive technologies, personal care, home-delivered meals, monitored in-home caregiving, and caregiver respite.

Adult Day Health Care: a community-based service delivered in an adult day health center which provides supervised care to adults in a supportive and safe setting during part of a day. Services provided by staff at licensed ADHC facilities include personal care assistance, health education, health screening, medication management, and others

Long-Term Personal Care Services: provides help with activities of daily living for people who qualify for assistance under the program guidelines. This program does not individually or in combination with other OAAS programs provide 24 hour per day support

Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)coordinates and provides all needed preventive, primary, acute and long-term care services so that older people can continue living in the community. The emphasis is on enabling senior citizens to remain in their communities while enhancing their quality of life.

OTHER COMMUNITY SERVICES

Permanent Supportive Housing: helps people with the most severe and complex disabilities live successfully in the community by combining individualized community-based services with affordable rental housing.

Louisiana's Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Program (THSCI): provide services in a flexible, individualized manner to Louisiana citizens with traumatic head or spinal cord injuries

State Personal Assistance Services Program: This program provides personal assistance services to people with significant disabilities to assist them with activities of daily living

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