Community Alternatives Program for Disabled Adults (CAPDA)

The Community Alternatives Program for Disabled Adults (CAP/DA) is a Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services. This waiver program provides a cost-effective alternative to institutionalization for a beneficiary, in a specified target population, who is at risk for institutionalization if specialized waiver services were not available. These services allow this targeted individual to remain in or return to a home and community-based setting. This waiver supplements, rather than replaces, the formal and informal services and supports already available to an approved Medicaid beneficiary.

What Home- and Community-based services are approved in the CAPDA waiver?

• Adult day health;
• CAP In-home aide;
• Equipment, modification and technology;
• Meal preparation and delivery;
• Respite services - Institutional respite and In-Home Aide respite;
• Personal Emergency Response Services (PERS);
• Specialized medical supplies;
• Goods and services – Participant, Individual-directed, Pest eradication, Nutritional services, Non-medical transportation and Chore services-declutter and garbage disposal;
• Community transition;
• Community integration;
• Training, education and consultative;
• Coordinated caregiving;
• Case management – case management and care advisement;
• Personal assistance;
• Financial management; and
• Consumer directed services

Who is eligible for CAPDA

• A disabled adults 18 years old and older.
• An individual who is determined to require a level of institutional care under the State Medicaid Plan.
•  An individual who needs at least one or more CAP/DA home-and community-based services based on a reasonable indication of need assessment that must be coordinated by a CAP/DA case manager.