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Minnesota Aging Pathways, ADRC, and 211 Resource Navigation

Minnesota caregivers can use Minnesota Aging Pathways, the Minnesota Board on Aging, Area Agencies on Aging, Minnesota's ADRC, MinnesotaHelp, and United Way 211 to find aging, disability, caregiver, long-term care, health insurance, Medical Assistance, housing, home care, transportation, food, legal, employment, and community resource referrals.

Minnesota Aging Pathways, formerly the Senior LinkAge Line, is a free statewide service of the Minnesota Board on Aging in partnership with Minnesota's area agencies on aging. Minnesota Aging Pathways connects older Minnesotans and their caregivers with services and support and can help with health insurance counseling, Medicare, long-term care planning, prescription drug costs, forms assistance for Medical Assistance and Medicare Extra Help, housing options, community services, nursing-home-to-community transitions, and preadmission screening. Minnesota Aging Pathways is Minnesota's federally designated long-term care options counseling service, State Health Insurance Assistance Program, Senior Medicare Patrol, and Aging and Disability Resource Center. The caregiver page says Minnesota family caregivers can access support at little or no cost, including phone information and referral, caregiver skills classes, individual caregiver consulting, self-directed grants, and limited respite care, and can start by calling 800-333-2433. United Way 211 provides free and confidential health and human services information for people in Minnesota 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with phone, text, and online search options; it connects callers with community resources statewide and includes more than 40,000 programs and services in its database.

Some details for this program are still being verified. Check the official source for the most current information.

Eligibility

  • Relationship: spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, other relative, non relative

Services

Minnesota Aging Pathways, formerly the Senior LinkAge Line, is a free statewide service of the Minnesota Board on Aging in partnership with Minnesota's area agencies on aging. Minnesota Aging Pathways connects older Minnesotans and their caregivers with services and support and can help with health insurance counseling, Medicare, long-term care planning, prescription drug costs, forms assistance for Medical Assistance and Medicare Extra Help, housing options, community services, nursing-home-to-community transitions, and preadmission screening. Minnesota Aging Pathways is Minnesota's federally designated long-term care options counseling service, State Health Insurance Assistance Program, Senior Medicare Patrol, and Aging and Disability Resource Center. The caregiver page says Minnesota family caregivers can access support at little or no cost, including phone information and referral, caregiver skills classes, individual caregiver consulting, self-directed grants, and limited respite care, and can start by calling 800-333-2433. United Way 211 provides free and confidential health and human services information for people in Minnesota 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with phone, text, and online search options; it connects callers with community resources statewide and includes more than 40,000 programs and services in its database.

How to apply

Use the official program page for application details: official program page.

  • mn-caregiver-support (companion): Minnesota Aging Pathways is the main intake and navigation route for caregiver support referrals.
  • mn-consumer-directed (companion): Minnesota Aging Pathways and 211 navigation can help caregivers identify local supports alongside Medicaid consumer-directed options.
  • mn-pfml (companion): Minnesota referral navigation can help caregivers find community supports alongside Paid Family and Medical Leave.