Aging Waiver
The Aging Waiver provides supportive services to help older adults remain in their homes or other community-based settings. Environmental accessibility modifications are an eligible service.
Eligibility: I am looking for home modification funding
Community Supports Waiver
This Medicaid Waiver provides supportive services to help persons with intellectual disabilities or conditions related to intellectual disabilities remain in their homes or other community-based settings. Environmental adaptations are included.
Utah State Assistive Technology Program
The Utah Assistive Technology Program (UATP) is part of the Institute for Disability Research, Policy and Practice at Utah State University. Our mission is to put assistive technology into the hands of people who need it. It also help people afford those devices. Te goal is to promote independence in education, employment, and community settings. […]
Living Well Coalition
Utah State Falls Prevention Coalition provides information to help prevent falls and fall-related injuries among older adults in Utah.
The Alternatives Program (TAP)
The Alternatives Program of the Weber-Morgan Area Agency on Aging offers a long-term case management program arranging services for qualified individuals to avoid premature institutionalization in nursing homes or assisted living. Services may include home modifications. This program is for those age 60 or older however, 25% of clients can be age 18-59.
Choices for Care Program
Choices for Care provides a package of long-term services and supports to individuals age 18 and older who meet the nursing home level of care. Services may be received in one’s setting of choice: a participant’s home or family’s home, an Adult Family Care home, Enhanced Residential Care or a nursing facility. All individuals who […]
Falls Free Vermont
The Vermont State Unit on Aging has co-chaired the statewide Falls Free Vermont coalition for the past three years, working alongside other state agencies and community-based organizations to raise awareness of falls, expand programs and resources to prevent falls (including home safety and home modifications), increase surveillance of falls, and advocate for support.
One Touch
Through a partnership with the Vermont Department of Health, the Vermont State Unit on Aging promotes a pilot program called “One Touch” in which experts who are called to a home for weatherization are able to do a falls risk screening and make simple modifications during the visit.
Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living Assistive Technology Program
The State Assistive Technology Grant Program, funded under the Assistive Technology Act of 2004, supports comprehensive, statewide programs in each state that improve the provision of assistive technology (often home modification-related) to individuals with disabilities of all ages.
Fall Prevention Services and Resources
Many Area Agencies on Aging in Vermont offer fall prevention classes that include a focus on identifying fall risks in the environment.