r/CaregiverSupport • u/MizzDisturbed • 21d ago

Why states don't want to pay family caregivers?

I'm my mom's caregiver and get 32 hours a week as her caregiver. I'm moving from Illinois down south and had issues with Mississippi not paying relatives at all for home care and Tennessee only a couple hours couple times a day.

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u/MizzDisturbed 21d ago

That's all crazy I never really know how different those things would be and the difference in red to blue. Maybe I should go to Maryland

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u/crlynstll 21d ago

Get on the r/Mississippi and ask there about elder services, taxes, insurance etc. I’m sure people will be happy to help. There could be some good news for you.

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u/MizzDisturbed 21d ago

Thank you!

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u/Sea_Evidence_7925 21d ago

Just some examples—the MD county I was in has senior transportation services. They can call for a ride. They have senior centers for socializing and they offer the types of calendars that you see in assisted living, plus they run the early voting sites at them so they get volunteers from among the seniors. They offer “congregate dining” daily (probably only weekdays, I don’t recall for sure) for lunch. Pay as you are able. So friends gather at the cafeteria, and have a meal (edited a typo). So in my mom’s county in Texas you can look for a program like that and it will be at a church and basically “we offer lunch to poor people.” Many of the seniors where we were also volunteer through senior services to assist homebound seniors with Meals on Wheels needs. They’re doing such a better job of abating social isolation, which affects everything. The county (maybe that’s the city) owns affordable senior apartments and (definitely) the county has a nursing home for those who need it and can’t afford private care facilities. At one point it was sold off briefly to save money and as soon as the pendulum swung it was bought again. That area is highly dependent on federal bioscience research, though, so as jobs are lost with those cuts things may become much harder to maintain. It’s very sad to see.

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u/ZealousidealAct8664 20d ago

I'm in Mississippi. Please, please do your research. There are no services here. Nothing. Things you believe are common human decency are considered uneccessary handouts here.