Wisconsin ADRC Home Care Path LLC

In South Central Wisconsin the ADRC's are beginning to appear. ADRC is Aging and Disability Resource Center. Located in the County building as department of Health and Human Services. Seniors can present at the ADRC with request to be assessed for determining elgibility for the available Federal and State programs. The State of Wisconsin currently employes an FES, Funcional Eligibility Screen to determine level of need. The State of Wisconsin perceives the Funcional Eligibility Screen as a tool for consistently evaluating a citizens needs in an accurate and fair manner. The total evaluation includes income and assets, physical functional loss, cognative deficit, age. Seniors with low income, no assets, loss of physical function and mental capacity may qualify for MA benefits. MA is medicaid. The State of Wisconsin compensates CMO's Care Management Organizations for serving seniors determined eligible for MA Medicaid by the FES Functional Eligiblity Screening Process. The ADRC will assist the member to choose a program that will help the senior by managing care. Current operating programs include Wisconsin Partnership Program, Family Care Program, IRIS, and Straight MA card. Through the ADRC the senior is attached to a CMO Care Management Organization that uses staff contacts to manage the seniors health care. Some seniors find they do not qualify for medicaid finanacially but still need assistance at home due to a loss of physical function or cognitive deficit. These seniors could be referred to Home Care Path LLC . Home Care Path LLC coordinates staff to assist seniors to perform daily chores preventing the senior from getting so run down they end up in the emergency room or permanantly placed in an assisted living facility. Often families of seniors receiving services through a CMO Care Management Organization will supplement the seniors package of care with the services of Home Care Path LLC. Families would pay privately for services they would like the senior to receive but the CMO has determined medically unnecessary, and will not pay for. Home Care Path LLC encourages all Wisconsin seniors to visit the local ADRC.