Community First Choice Option - Opt In
When you get old, do you want to stay in your own home with someone to help with things you can no longer do for yourself? Or do you want to move into a nursing home, share a room with a stranger, and let someone else decide when and what you will eat, when you will sleep, and if you can go outside?
If you were a person with a disability, would you want to stay in your community -- doing the things you have always done -- with supports like personal care, special technology or home modifications and mobility equipment? Or would you prefer to move into an institution that satisfies all your care needs and makes all your decisions?
Elderly and/or disabled Arkansans and their families face these questions every day. Today these important decisions may be out of their hands. But tomorrow could be a different story.
When the Arkansas legislature meets in 2015, our elected officials will decide whether living at home in our own communities will be an option for us when we get old or if we have disabilities. They will either support or oppose Community First Choice Option (CFCO).
CFCO - a program of the Affordable Care Act - gives states extra money to provide care for people currently on a waiting list for services to remain in their own homes. At present, Arkansas has a waiting list of about 2,800 people with disabilities who have been denied home and community-based services, some for as much as 8 years. CFCO will end Arkansas' waiting list forever.
If you were a person with a disability, would you want to stay in your community -- doing the things you have always done -- with supports like personal care, special technology or home modifications and mobility equipment? Or would you prefer to move into an institution that satisfies all your care needs and makes all your decisions?
Elderly and/or disabled Arkansans and their families face these questions every day. Today these important decisions may be out of their hands. But tomorrow could be a different story.
When the Arkansas legislature meets in 2015, our elected officials will decide whether living at home in our own communities will be an option for us when we get old or if we have disabilities. They will either support or oppose Community First Choice Option (CFCO).
CFCO - a program of the Affordable Care Act - gives states extra money to provide care for people currently on a waiting list for services to remain in their own homes. At present, Arkansas has a waiting list of about 2,800 people with disabilities who have been denied home and community-based services, some for as much as 8 years. CFCO will end Arkansas' waiting list forever.
What will CFCO cost the State?
The answer is 'nothing.' As a matter of fact, the State projects a savings of $365 million over the next 12 years.
What's in it for the federal government?
Since the cost of home and community-based care is less than he cost of nursing home or institutional care, the federal government will save money every time an Arkansan exercises the choice to receive care at home or in the community.
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The answer is 'nothing.' As a matter of fact, the State projects a savings of $365 million over the next 12 years.
What's in it for the federal government?
Since the cost of home and community-based care is less than he cost of nursing home or institutional care, the federal government will save money every time an Arkansan exercises the choice to receive care at home or in the community.
For More Info call (479)-957-6939