Adult Foster Care Program

Adult Foster Care Program (AFC) provides assistance to individuals to live with a caregiver, who is trained by our staff and paid a stipend to provide daily care within a family setting rather than a nursing home or nursing facility.

Caregivers may be non-family members, or family members (except legally responsible relatives or spouses). The caregiver provides assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s) & Instruments of Activities of Daily Living (IADL’s) and 24-hour supervision.

In order to be eligible for these services, an individual must:

• Be willing to live with caregiver
• Not require full-time skilled nursing care
• Provide companionship
• Medication reminders
• Prescription pickup/drop off
• Requires assistance with Activities of Daily Living that includes:
  • Bathing
  • Dressing
  • House Cleaning
  • Laundry
  • Meal Preparation
  • Locomotion
  • Ambulation
  • Transferring
  • Personal Hygiene
  • Eating
• Case Management
• Services 7 days a week

Eligibility Requirements:

• 16 years of age and older
• Individuals who require assistance with activities of daily living (ADL’s) & Instruments of Activities of Daily Living (IADL’s) and unable to live alone
• Requires direct care
• Member of MassHealth Standard, BMC HP, CCA, SWH and Tufts HP and other approved providers
• Physician approval

Our staff provides services in many languages, here’s a partial list, but not limited to:

• English
• Spanish
• Haitian Creole
• French
• Cape Verde Creole
• Portuguese
• Vietnamese
• Russian