State Units on Aging (SUAs) are designated state-level agencies that develop and administer state plans that advocate for and provide assistance, including home modifications or repairs, to older residents, their families, and adults with physical disabilities. SUAs administer funds, including Older Americans Act funds, which may be used to support home modification or repair services […]
This Medicaid Waiver provides supportive services including environmental adaptations to assist people with an acquired brain injury to remain in their homes or other community-based settings.
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.
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.
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. […]
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 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 […]
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.
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.
The Buckeye Hills Area Agency on Aging offers the Home Accessibility Modifications and Minor Home Repair Program for adults age 60 and older and individuals under age 60 with a disability in need of accessibility repairs. Home modifications include building wheelchair ramps, replacing tubs for showers, and installing grab bars and handrails. Minor home repairs […]