Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders (CHCPE)
Overview
Community Options Unit
This website area explains the CT Home Care Program for Elders (CHCPE), including who is eligible for the program, what services are available, how to apply for services, and how to contact the program.
To be eligible, applicants must be 65 years of age or older, be a Connecticut resident, be at risk of nursing home placement and meet the program’s financial eligibility criteria. To be at risk of nursing home placement means that the applicant needs assistance with critical needs such as bathing, dressing, eating, taking medications, toileting. The CHCPE helps eligible clients continue living at home instead of going to a nursing home. Each applicant’s needs are reviewed to determine if the applicant may remain at home with the help of home care services. For more information on eligibility criteria, please see the link below.
Services may include:
- Care Management Services
- Adult Day Health Services
- Companion Services
- Home Delivered Meals
- Homemaker Services
- *Personal Care Attendant Services - family members are NOT eligible to be paid for taking care of relatives with very rare exceptions.
- *Chore Assistance - only available as part of a package of services to applicants who meet all other eligibility criteria.
- Adult Family Living
- Bill Payer
- Support /lioker
- Care Transitions
- Chronic Disease Self-Management
- Assistive Technology
Please follow this link for the CHC Provider Directory.