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Read about Long Term Care Options at the N.C. Division of Aging
Duke Long-Term Care Resources Program
Friends of Residents in Long Term Care (FORLTC)
Money Follows the Person (MFP) is a program that allows people in nursing homes or other institutions who are elderly or have disabilities to move out of a nursing home or institution and receive assistance to live in their own homes in their own communities.
When people who are elderly or have disabilities need personal assistance, they often have to go to a nursing home or an institution in order for Medicaid to pay for services. However, many folks would prefer to receive these services in their own homes and in their own communities.
Money Follows the Person (MFP) is the term used to describe the practice of Medicaid allowing these same people to move out of nursing homes and institutions and receive the assistance that they need to live in their homes and communities. Thus, the money for the assistance follows the person out of the nursing home or institution and into their homes and communities.
The federal government is awarding extra funding and assistance to states wishing to demonstrate how their state Medicaid agency can effectively develop Money Follows the Person practices. This funding is time-limited and each state must agree to move people from institutional settings to home and community based settings.
North Carolina was awarded the Money Follows the Person Demonstration Grant in May 2007.
Reorganizing Medicaid services to enable money to follow people out of institutions is a very complex process. It involves shifting State policies, rules and regulations, adjusting Medicaid funding streams, and supporting local communities so people who are elderly or have disabilities can return to their homes.
The purpose of the Money Follows the Person Demonstration Project is to provide the State with additional funding and support so it can assist 304 people in moving from institutional settings to home and community based settings and to ensure that funding and support continue after the project ends.
During the course of the Money Follows the Person Demonstration Project, North Carolina will support at least 304 people who are aging, developmentally disabled, intellectually disabled, and/or physically disabled to move from nursing homes or institutions to home and community based services.
The Money Follows the Person Demonstration Project will last until September 30, 2011.
Hopefully, the State will have the structures and supports in place to begin supporting anyone who is eligible to receive services in a nursing home or institution to receive those same service in their homes and communities.
In addition to North Carolina's Money Follows the Person Demonstration Project, there is also a Money Follws the Person grass roots advocacy effort. This grass roots advocacy effort is promoting State legislation that will allow anyone who is eligible to receive personal care in a nursing home or institution to receive those same services in their homes and communities. The Money Follows the Person Demonstration Project (a federally funded initiative) targets 304 people in North Carolina, while the Money Follws the Person grass roots effort is advocating for everyone to have this option. The two efforts have the same goal - to support people to live in their homes and communities.
