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Care Choices - Home Care, Assisted Living and Nursing Facilities Care

Finding the kind of care you need often feels like going through a maze when you are least able to do so - when you or a loved one face a medical emergency or crisis. Much of the information on these pages can be found elsewhere on the Bureau's web site, but is organized here to provide a "one-stop-shopping" source of information specific to long-term care and health care.

Nursing homes used to be the only choice. But not today...
Introducing Long-Term Care

Care
Options

Care Options includes information about where you can get assistance if you are no longer able to care for yourself, or need some assistance to remain in your own home.

Home Care

Assisted Living and Adult Day Programs
  • Assisted Living/ADC - A "searchable" listing of Adult Day Care and Assisted Living facilities throughout the state.
[Nursing Facility Care]

Nursing Facilities

 [HCFA Nursing Home Compare page]
Look up nursing facilities in Maine, including results of Licensing surveys. Click here for a listing of all states.

Financial
Assistance

Information on resources to help pay for some of the costs associated with health care
[SHIP logo]

Health Insurance Assistance

 The Health Insurance Assistance Program offers a helping hand to Medicare beneficiaries by providing free information, counseling, and assistance.
[Pills]

Prescription Drug Assistance
A guide for Mainers who need help paying for their prescription drugs especially those on Medicare

Medicaid

 		Information on Medicaid, including financial and medical eligibility determination information.

Medicare

 		If you are 65 and over and receive Social Security Retirement or Railroad Retirement benefits you are eligible to receive Medicare to help pay certain medical expenses.
Maine Senior Medicare Patrol
The Senion Medicare Patrol's mission is to educate consumers about their Medicare benefits and to help reduce errors, fraud, waste and abuse.

General Assistance

 		You may be eligible even if you work or receive other benefits such as: food stamps, veterans' benefits, or Social Security.

Advance Health Care Decisions

Information on legal issues, health care decisions, finances, etc

Aging:
Taking Care of Business

 A Guide for Older People, Families and Friends Regarding:
  • Health Care Advance Directives
  • Durable Powers of Attorney for Finances
  • Guardianship/Conservatorship
  • Other Related Information

Advance
Directives

 		Taking Charge of Your Health Care
Health Care Advance Directives - Your right to choose your care in advance

Related
Information/Sites

Other miscellaneous information and web sites related to health care