No. CAP/DA is a home- and community-based waiver that serves people living in their own home, not in a licensed adult care home or assisted living facility, so it does not pay for assisted living room and board or services. North Carolina has no Medicaid waiver dedicated to assisted living; room and board there is instead covered through the non-Medicaid State/County Special Assistance program.
The detail behind the program
This distinction trips up many Wake County families researching Medicaid options online, because generic 'Medicaid pays for long-term care' language doesn't specify which setting it applies to. CAP/DA is squarely an in-home program — its entire menu of services (adult day health, in-home aides, home modifications, respite care) assumes the beneficiary is living in their own home or with family, not in a licensed facility. If a Wake County family's goal is instead to help a parent afford room and board at a licensed adult care home, the relevant program is State/County Special Assistance, not CAP/DA — and confusing the two can lead a family to apply for the wrong program or misunderstand what coverage they're likely to receive.
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