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 New Hampshire’s seniors are one of the fastest growing populations in the country — and one of our greatest assets. Ensuring their wellbeing requires a commitment to providing desirable home- and community-based services that address every aspect of aging.
We offer innovative and cost-effective alternatives to institutional options:
Adult Family Care (AFC)
Sometimes called "Adult Foster Care," enables seniors who could use help with day-to-day tasks to become part of a family that offers key supports and companionship.
Survey after survey shows that most people age 50 and older want to remain in their homes as long as possible. When that isn’t possible, a home setting, like the kind available through Adult Family Care, creates the kind of comfort and familiarity that an institutional residence can’t.
The Moore Center recruits, trains and supervises the host family, which opens its home to the senior and provides a combination of personal care and homemaking services. This host or "provider" family assists with a number of tasks specified in the care plan that we develop together such as medication monitoring, arranging appointments, transportation and Activities of Daily Living (ADL), which can include getting dressed and eating. The home must be certified by the New Hampshire Health and Human Services Bureau of Health Facilities Administration.
Kinship Care
Is just like Adult Family Care, except it is provided by one of the senior’s family members. However, the family member cannot be the senior’s spouse or legally responsible representative. Any other family member, though, who is chosen by the senior and willing to provide kinship care under The Moore Center’s supervision may be eligible.
The Kinship Care provider home need not be certified by the state Department of Health and Human Services, but it must pass a life safety inspection conducted by the local fire department.
Our Role
Moore Options for Seniors, a Moore Center program, envisioned these services. What’s more, as an "oversight agency," we are required to perform the following functions:
• Recruit, screen and provide state-mandated as well as customized, dynamic training to individuals wishing to become Adult Family Care providers
• Develop the individual’s care plan in collaboration with the participant, provider family, and case manager
• Conduct criminal records background checks, Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services State Registry checks and state motor
vehicle checks on prospective home providers and other adult household members
• Assist prospective Adult Family Care home providers with the DHHS Bureau of Health Facilities Administration licensure/certification process, holding the credentials in conjunction with the home provider
• Manage and complete tasks required for a life safety inspection of Kinship Care and Adult Family Care provider homes
• Match individuals with Adult Family Care providers and finalize compatible placements
• Coordinate placement, in conjunction with the participant and case manager, in another AFC home or setting if the
current placement is unsatisfactory
• Perform fiscal functions such as billing the state for senior’s Choices for Independence (CFI) services and paying the AFC home provider
• Provide 24/7 on-call availability to address and resolve unforeseen circumstances (such as the sudden hospitalization of a home provider that requires immediate coordination of alternative care for the participant)
• Promote the program in the community
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