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title: "Arkansas Home Care Medicaid | Funding LTC Marketplace"
url: https://fundingltcmarketplace.com/states/arkansas/home-care-medicaid/
description: "ARChoices and Living Choices are Arkansas community alternatives, each requiring financial criteria and an intermediate level of care."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
author: George A. Mellendorf, CLTC, LTCP (Central States Insurance Services, Inc.)
publisher: Funding LTC Marketplace
note: Educational content; not legal, tax or financial advice. Markdown copy of the HTML page at the URL above.
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Arkansas · Home & Community Care

# Arkansas Home Care Medicaid

Last updated 2026-10-20

ARChoices in Homecare is Arkansas's main in-home Medicaid waiver, built to serve people age 65 and older along with adults age 21 through 64 who have a physical disability. To qualify, an applicant has to meet the program's financial criteria, demonstrate the intermediate level of care that would otherwise require nursing-home admission, and actually need at least one of the services the program offers.

The service list itself is fairly broad: attendant care, home-delivered meals, a personal emergency response system, adult day services, adult day health, respite care, and environmental modifications are all part of what ARChoices covers. A federal CMS waiver factsheet confirms the same core population — older adults and adults with physical disabilities who meet a nursing-facility level of care. Living Choices assisted living is Arkansas's other main community alternative, offering a different setting with its own financial and level-of-care criteria.

## Sources and official resources

- [Arkansas DHS: Consumer Long-Term Care Information](https://humanservices.arkansas.gov/divisions-shared-services/provider-services-quality-assurance/consumer-long-term-care-information/)
- [CMS: 2026 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards](https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/cib04272026.pdf)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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