In-Home Dementia Care in Ohio

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Medicare does not pay for the long-term help dementia requires. In Ohio the programme that can is PASSPORT, administered by the Ohio Department of Aging, through regional Area Agencies on Aging that assign each participant a case manager.

Who qualifies

Participants must be age 60 or older, be frail enough to require a nursing home level of care, and be able to remain safely at home with their physician's consent. The cited page does not describe any dementia-specific eligibility route, so ask the office that administers the programme how a dementia diagnosis is weighed in that assessment.

The financial limits

Single applicant

Not published on the cited Ohio Department of Aging page; set by Ohio Medicaid institutional-care financial eligibility rules

Married couple

Not published on the cited page; spousal rules apply

Look-back period

Not published on the cited page; standard Medicaid transfer-of-asset rules apply

How to apply

A local Area Agency on Aging screens the applicant and, once eligible, assigns a case manager who builds the in-home service package with local providers and checks in on quality.

What is unusual about Ohio

PASSPORT is delivered through the regional Area Agency on Aging rather than a statewide office, so the same program is administered by the agency covering your county, and a case manager stays involved after enrollment to adjust the service package.

Rules and figures change. Confirm the current position with the programme itself before making a financial decision.