Structured Family Caregiving is a program which provides a tax-free financial stipend to family members who provide personal care and support services to a consumer in the consumer’s private home or the private home of the principal caregiver.
Structured Family Caregiving includes routine intermittent personal care, supervision, cueing, meals, homemaker, chore services, medication management (to the extent permitted under State law), and other instrumental activities of daily living (e.g. transportation for necessary appointments and community activities, shopping, managing finances, and phone use) and other appropriate activities as described in the participant’s person-centered service plan are included activities in structured family caregiving.
For more information, please call Homecare Services of SD at (800) 899-2578