Middle Georgia Home Care Guide is an independent informational website about in-home and senior care for families in Macon, Bibb County and the surrounding counties of Middle Georgia. It explains how care at home is organized, regulated and paid for, so that readers can ask better questions of the people and agencies that actually decide.
Independent, and not affiliated
This guide is independent. It is not affiliated with any business that previously used this domain or with any similarly named business. It is also not connected to any government agency, insurer, health care provider or home care agency, and nothing here speaks for any of them.
What this guide is
A set of reference pages on the kinds of in-home care, how Georgia licenses private home care providers and how to check a license, how Medicare, Georgia Medicaid waivers, the VA and long-term care insurance treat home care, what care costs in Georgia according to a published survey, and where family caregivers can get support. The home page lists every topic.
What this guide is not
It is not a home care agency and does not provide, arrange, refer or recommend care, caregivers, agencies or facilities. It carries no reviews, rankings or advertising, takes no payments and collects no personal information. It cannot judge whether a person qualifies for a program, and it does not give medical, legal or financial advice.
How the pages are prepared
Pages are drawn from official and primary sources: the Georgia Department of Community Health and the text of its rules, the Georgia Department of Human Services, Medicare.gov, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Administration for Community Living and the CareScout Cost of Care Survey. Numbers, rules and dates are written with the year they were published or checked. A fact that could not be confirmed against a reliable source was left out. Pages are revised when the underlying sources change, and a few pages say plainly that a rule was under revision when they were written.
Verify before you act
Income limits, program rules, waiting times and fees change, sometimes every year. Use this guide to understand the landscape, then confirm the details with the body that decides: the Department of Community Health for licensing and Medicaid waivers, the Area Agency on Aging for local entry into programs, Medicare for Medicare coverage, the VA for veterans' benefits and the state insurance commissioner's office for insurance questions. For medical decisions, speak to a doctor or nurse; for legal and financial decisions, to a qualified professional.
Corrections and suggestions
If a page contains an error, a rule has changed or a link no longer works, please say so on the contact page. Include the page name, the sentence in question and a link to the official source if one is available.