Contact your county's Aging & Disability Resource Center (ADRC) to begin. The ADRC administers Wisconsin's Long-Term Care Functional Screen, which determines eligibility for both programs, and helps enroll members once financial and functional eligibility are confirmed.
The detail behind the program
Because each of the four core Milwaukee-metro counties (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington) has its own separate ADRC rather than one shared regional office, where you start depends on where the person needing care actually lives. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Milwaukee County can be reached at (414) 289-6874; Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties each have their own separate ADRC phone lines. Expect the process to involve the functional screen (an assessment of the person's care needs) alongside a separate financial-eligibility review, and know that exact current income and asset limits for Wisconsin's long-term-care Medicaid pathway should be confirmed directly with DHS or your ADRC's benefits specialist rather than assumed from an outdated online source.
