Services covered under the ex-SPED program - Programmatic criteria

Room and board costs may not be paid in the ex-SPED service payment. The following categories of services are covered under the ex-SPED program and may be provided to an eligible individual: 1. The department may provide adult day care services to an eligible individual: a. Who requires assistance in activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living; b. Who is able to participate in group activities; and c. Who, if the eligible individual does not live alone, has a primary caregiver who will benefit from the temporary relief of caregiving. 2. The department may provide adult family foster care, using a licensed adult family foster care provider, to an eligible individual eighteen years of age or older: a. Who resides in a licensed adult family foster care home; b. Who requires care or supervision; c. Who would benefit from a family environment; and d. Whose required care does not exceed the capability of the foster care provider. 3. The department may provide chore services to an eligible individual for one-time, intermittent, or occasional activities which would enable the eligible individual to remain in the home. Activities such as heavy housework and periodic cleaning, professional extermination, snow removal, and emergency response systems may be provided. Eligible individuals receiving emergency response services must be cognitively and physically capable of activating the emergency response system. The activity must be the responsibility of the eligible individual and not the responsibility of the landlord. 4. The department may provide environmental modification to an eligible individual: a. Who owns or rents the home to be modified. If the home is rented the property owner shall approve the modification consistent with the property owner's obligations pursuant to section 804(f)(3)(A) of the Fair Housing Act [42 U.S.C. 3604(f)(3)(A)] before the installation of the environmental modification; and b. When the modification will enable the eligible individual to complete the eligible individual's own personal care or to receive care and allow the eligible individual to safely stay in the home. 5. The department may provide family home care services to an eligible individual: a. Who lives in the same residence as the care provider on a twenty-four-hour basis; b. Who agrees to the provision of services by the care provider; and c. Whose care provider is a relative identified within the definition of "family home care" under subsection 2 of North Dakota Century Code section 50-06.2-02 and is enrolled as a qualified service provider. 6. The department may provide home-delivered meals to an eligible individual who lives alone and is unable to prepare an adequate meal for themselves, or who lives with an individual who is unable or not available to prepare an adequate meal for the eligible individual. 7. The department may provide homemaker services to an eligible individual who needs assistance with environmental maintenance activities including light housekeeping, laundry, meal planning and preparation, and shopping on an intermittent or occasional basis. The department may pay a provider for laundry, shopping, meal preparation, money management, or communication, if the activity benefits the eligible individual. The department may pay a provider for housekeeping activities involving the eligible individual's personal private space and if the eligible individual is living with an adult, the eligible individual's share of common living space. The homemaker service cap funding applies to a household and may not be exceeded regardless of the number of eligible individuals residing in that household. 8. Nonmedical transportation services may be provided to eligible individuals who are unable to provide their own transportation and need transportation to access essential community services such as grocery stores or pharmacies. "Nonmedical transportation services" are transportation services not related to the receipt of medical care. 9. The department may provide respite care services to an eligible individual in the eligible individual's home, in the provider's home, in a nursing home, in a swing-bed facility, in a basic care facility, or in a hospital, if: a. The eligible individual has a full-time primary caregiver; b. The eligible individual needs a qualified caregiver or it would be inappropriate to use an unqualified caregiver in the absence of the primary caregiver; c. The primary caregiver's need for the relief is intermittent or occasional; and d. The primary caregiver's need for relief is not due to the primary caregiver's employment or attendance at school as a part-time or full-time student. 10. The department may provide companionship services up to ten hours per month to eligible individuals who live alone and could benefit from services to help reduce social isolation. 11. The department may provide other services as the department determines appropriate.