Ride For Life

Care for Life

Care for Life provides ALS patients with grants for free limited in-home respite care.

This program will greatly assist families by easing the strain, which many face when dealing with ALS because of the lack of respite care from their health insurance provider.

Care for Life provides grants of $1500 each to help familes pay for respite care provided by a local healthcare agency. Applications are accepted and a limited number of grants are awarded every three months.

Patients and caregivers who have received a Care for Life grant have told us how much it has meant to them. Some caregivers said the grant allowed them to hire a healthcare worker for several hours each week and this gave them the opportunity to run errands, visit friends, or even just relax for a while. One patient said he used his grant so a health care worker could give him a proper bath and a shave each week. How you use it is up to you.

Care for Life is not intended to supplement existing care but rather, to assist families without any help.

A licensed health care agency must provide the respite service and must bill Ride For Life, Inc., directly. They must also furnish us with their tax identification number. Our liaison will assist with agency inquiries about the respite grant.

You will have 4 opportunities a year to apply for a grant with a new application period starting every 3 months.

Application procedure