Senior Solutions Home Care provides non-medical home care to older adults in Atlanta, and Medicaid is one of the ways families can pay for it. Medicaid home care in Atlanta runs through a few Georgia programs that help a person keep living at home with daily help. This page walks you through how Medicaid can help pay for care at home, who qualifies, how Atlanta families apply, and how to get started with us, one step at a time.
Senior Solutions is a non-medical home care agency. Our trained caregivers help older adults with the activities of daily living, things like bathing, dressing and getting a meal on the table, right in their own homes. Medicaid is among the payments we accept, which makes us one of the home care agencies that accept Medicaid in Atlanta, and we also work with families paying through insurance, VA benefits or their own funds.
The city has a large and growing group of older neighbors, with about 66,200 Atlanta residents aged 65 or older, including nearly 7,000 who are 85 and up. Medicaid or another public health plan for people with limited income covers about 1 in 4 Atlantans aged 65 and older, so a good number of the parents and grandparents in our neighborhoods may be able to put it toward help at home.
Our Atlanta office is on Piedmont Rd NE. Our caregivers serve families across the city and in Sandy Springs, College Park, Hapeville, Palmetto, Alpharetta, Roswell, Johns Creek, Milton, Chattahoochee Hills, Brookhaven, Decatur, Dunwoody, Marietta and all of Fulton County, and the care comes to your loved one in the home they already know.
Georgia's home care waivers list personal care and respite for family caregivers among their services, and those are the kinds of help our caregivers give every day. The help is practical and hands-on, and it's built around the small routines that make a day go well.
Here is what a Senior Solutions caregiver can help with at home:
Medicaid personal care at home in Atlanta often starts with the basics. Our caregivers give hands-on help with bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting in a way that respects your loved one's privacy and lets them set the pace. For someone who mostly manages on their own but spends long days alone, our caregivers bring companionship, light chores and errands through companion care at home, a few hours at a time or more, whatever the week calls for.
A lot of older adults in this city live by themselves, and about half of Atlanta households with someone 65 or older are one person living alone. For a parent living on their own, a caregiver who comes by regularly is someone to talk with, someone who notices when something changes, and someone who can let the family know. You can read about the full range of everyday help our senior home care covers, from laundry to rides and errands.
A waiver is the part of Medicaid that pays for help at home that regular Medicaid doesn't cover, such as a caregiver who helps with bathing and meals. Georgia offers these waivers to people who need the level of care a nursing home gives, so they can get that care while staying at home.
Senior Solutions is approved to provide Medicaid services. Whether Medicaid will pay for your loved one's care depends on their income, their savings and how much help they need each day, so it's worth asking our team about coverage when you get in touch.
Medicaid home care eligibility in Georgia comes down to a few questions. For Georgia's home care waiver for older adults, the state asks that a person be eligible for Medicaid, be 65 or older or meet disability rules if younger, need a nursing home level of care, and choose to get that care at home or in the community. A person can take part in one waiver at a time.
"Nursing home level of care" describes how much help a person needs day to day. People who meet it stay right in their own homes, and the waiver is there to make that possible.
Money rules apply too. In the Atlanta region, the monthly income cap is $2,982 from all sources, and savings and other resources are generally limited to $2,000 for an individual. A person whose gross monthly income is above the SSI limit of $994 may pay a monthly cost share toward their care.
Medicaid also looks back five years at any assets that were given away or transferred. Services through the waiver are subject to Medicaid estate recovery as well, which is worth talking over as a family before you apply.
In Atlanta, the path starts with the Area Agency on Aging. The Atlanta Regional Commission is the Area Agency on Aging for the City of Atlanta and for Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties. Its front door is Empowerline, the region's resource center for older adults, people with disabilities and the families who care for them.
Here is how to apply for Medicaid home care in Georgia from Atlanta, step by step. The first step is a screening. For the waiver, Empowerline guides families to the state's online quick screen, and the Georgia Division of Aging Services sends each screen on to the right Area Agency on Aging.
The screening looks at your loved one's situation and how urgent their need is, and that sets their place on the waiting list, since there often is one. When a spot opens, someone visits the home for an in-home assessment, and a care plan is written from what they learn. The last step is choosing the home care provider who will deliver that care.
The steps can feel like a lot, so take your time with them. Our team is glad to answer questions along the way and point families in the right direction for financial resources.
Kunu Kaushal opened Senior Solutions in 2010, and his grandparents were his very first clients. We're still a family-owned company, and our services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Every caregiver is our employee, which means we handle the taxes, the insurance and the backup support whenever it's needed. Our caregivers are thoroughly screened, insured and bonded, they've all passed state and national background checks, and they receive ongoing skills training. You can read about how we train our caregivers through three levels of paid training and shifts alongside experienced caregivers.
We use a care-managed approach. Your family has geriatric care managers and senior advisers on your care team, and they can coordinate with your doctors, specialists and other professionals. We also take care to match a caregiver who clicks with your parent, and our satisfaction guarantee means you can bring a caregiver into your home without feeling trapped by a contract.
Senior Solutions has been named an Inc. 5000 honoree three times, in 2018, 2019 and 2020. As Jessica, a client family member, put it: "I do feel like they have a level of understanding and commitment to making sure that I can rest easy on my end and making sure that mom has somebody with a personality type that can work with her."
Some families don't qualify for Medicaid, and others are waiting on a waiver slot. Other options can help in the meantime. Medicare does not directly cover ongoing in-home care, though Medicare Part A may cover some skilled services given at home by a licensed professional.
For veterans and their surviving spouses, the VA Aid and Attendance Pension Benefit can help pay for non-medical home care, and we provide in-home care for veterans through the Aid and Attendance benefit. Long-term care insurance plans may cover some in-home care, and our care managers assist with long-term care insurance coordination. Families can also pay privately for hourly care.
Starting with us takes three simple steps. First comes a phone consultation of about ten minutes, where we figure out right away whether we're a good fit, and if we're not, we'll refer you to someone in our wide network of professionals. Next, we visit you and your parent at home to hear your story, answer your questions and get a shared sense of the care you need. Then we build an initial care plan and match you with a trained caregiver, and after 30 days we review how things are going and adjust the plan. When you're ready, you can Get Started with our short form, and a caring staff member from our office will be in touch.
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Yes. Senior Solutions Home Care is a non-medical home care agency, and Medicaid is among the payments we accept for in-home care in Atlanta. Our team can also talk with you about the other ways families pay, like VA benefits, long-term care insurance and private pay.
A person needs to be eligible for Medicaid, be 65 or older or have a qualifying disability, need a nursing home level of care, and choose to get that care at home. Income and asset limits apply as well, and a person can be in one waiver at a time.
Families start with the Atlanta Regional Commission, the area's Area Agency on Aging, through Empowerline, or with the state's online quick screen. A screening comes first, followed by an in-home assessment and a care plan.
Often, yes. The screening looks at each person's situation and how urgent their need is, and that sets their place on the waiting list. While you wait, other ways to pay for care at home, like VA benefits, long-term care insurance or private pay, can fill the gap.
Some people do. In the Atlanta region, a person whose gross monthly income is above the SSI limit of $994 may have a monthly cost share. To qualify, income has to stay under $2,982 a month, and resources are generally limited to $2,000 for an individual.
Our caregivers help with bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting, light housekeeping, laundry, light meals, medication reminders, errands and companionship. They also give family caregivers respite, so you can rest, run your own errands or simply take an afternoon for yourself.
Medicare does not directly cover ongoing in-home care. Medicare Part A may cover some skilled services given at home by a licensed professional. State Medicaid programs, the VA Aid and Attendance Pension Benefit and long-term care insurance can help with the cost of personal care.
