- (a) The Nursing Home Alternatives Program provides community and home-based services which enable the elderly to sustain their independence and consequently diminish their need for institutionalization.
(b) This state-funded program consists of the following services:
- (1) Adult day care;
- (2) Chores;
- (3) Emergency assistance;
- (4) Health promotion;
- (5) Home-delivered meals;
- (6) Homemaker;
- (7) Personal care;
- (8) Personal emergency response system;
- (9) Repair/modification/maintenance;
- (10) Respite care; and
- (11) May also include other home and community-based services approved by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services.
- (c) All entities who provide nursing home alternatives services must comply with the administrative and service delivery standards established by the division.