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Family-Managed Home Care is a new model for home care delivery in Ontario. It is available in each Home and Community Care Support Services .
Family-Managed Home Care is intended to provide more control over care to eligible patients and families. Through the program, eligible patients, or their substitute decision-makers – such as their spouse or parent, will receive funding that they can use to purchase home care services or employ care providers. patients or substitute decision-makers are responsible for managing their care providers and reporting to the Home and Community Care Support Services.
The program provides patients or substitute decision-makers (SDMs) with considerable independence and responsibility. Patients or their substitute decision-makers are responsible for managing the care required by the patient and their service providers, as well as for financial administration and reporting.
They must be:
- Aware of the types of home care services that the patient requires and when they require them
- Capable of recruiting, scheduling and overseeing care providers in the home, including establishing contingency plans
- Able to fully understand and carry out the responsibilities of being an employer, often of multiple service providers
- Capable of managing the financial aspects of the program, including the SDC bank account, payment of service providers and taxes, securing insurance, record-keeping and fulfilling Home and Community Care Support Services reporting.
We at Carnation Consulting understand that managing Family Home Care is a challenge for patients and/or Substitute Decision-makers, and we provide the following services* to lessen the burden on your shoulders:
* Our Service Cost would be covered within your funding so you do not have to pay. Please ask your program founder for more information.
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