Living Independently for Elders (LIFE) program

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identifies the program as PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly). LIFE allows a designated provider to furnish services to an eligible consumer as long as the individual can live safely in the community. The consumer is moved into a long-term care facility when community living is no longer possible. Medicaid or Medicare (or both) pays the provider a fixed amount for the consumer’s care as a participant in LIFE. (Also known as the Long Term Care Capitated Assistance Program.)