·State program
Minnesota Caregiver Support
Minnesota provides caregiver support for family, friends, and neighbors caring for older adults or people with dementia. Caregivers can contact Minnesota Aging Pathways for local support, including caregiver consultants, support groups, training, education, respite, and connections to services.
What it offers
Family, friends, and neighbors caring for an older adult or person with dementia can access caregiver support across Minnesota. Supports include one-on-one caregiver consultants, support groups, training, education, respite, and help finding local services through Minnesota Aging Pathways. Minnesota law also authorizes the Minnesota Board on Aging to administer self-directed caregiver grants for at-risk family caregivers of older adults or others eligible under the Older Americans Act, and caregiver support programs may provide respite care within available funds.
Questions that decide eligibility
GiveCare prepares the questions; the program makes the decision. Bring these to the call or the application:
- 01
Does the person receiving care live in Minnesota?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, other relative, or non relative — count for this program?
- 03
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
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Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
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Is there a caregiver-specific department, coordinator, or support line? Ask for it by name.
Many agencies have one that isn’t advertised on the website.
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What documents do you need from us to start an application?
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Is there a waitlist right now, and how long is it?