Personal care is a growing state expense, and is expected to cost Medicaid more than $315 million in the next budget year, reports Thomas Goldsmith.
The cost for personal care, services delivered to the elderly or disabled in their homes, is likely to surpass the tab for assisted-living centers and group homes in the next budget.
Meanwhile, legislators are moving forward with a proposal to ban smoking in adult-care homes, the W-SJ reports.
The proposed ban was suggested after a fatal fire in a Mocksville home that resulted from a resident smoking near an oxygen tank.
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