1. Respite Care Support and Services: Respite Care means intermittent or regularly scheduled temporary, non-medical care supervision provided in the consumer’s own home, community senior center or community senior center sponsored event, and designed to do all the following: a. Assist family members to care for the elder consumer at home. b. Provide appropriate care and supervision to protect the elder consumer’s safety in the absence of family members. c. Relieve family members from the constantly demanding responsibility of caring for a consumer; and d. Attend to the consumer’s basic self-help needs and other activities of daily living, including interaction, socialization, and continuation of usual daily routines which would ordinarily be performed by the family member. e. The rate range will be $13.00 - $21.00 per client per hour; the hourly rate will be pro-rated for services provided by two or more individuals at the same time. Respite care services will not exceed 40 hours per family per month enrolled with NN DALTCS. 2. Provide respite care services for the eligible (eligibility in accordance with Older Americans Act (OAA) Title VI, Part C, requirements), informal family caregiver, not for the elder who needs care. 3. Vendor will provide trained, certified, and mentally stable respite care providers and related supplemental support (supplemental support, on a limited basis, to complement the care instruction and coordination with the vendor and NN DALTC).
