{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-43-63-3","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 43-63-3","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 43-63-3","body":"(1) The Legislature finds that:\n\n(a) Families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia at home are often burdened with excessive financial or personal costs of providing continuous care;\n\n(b) Medicare does not pay for long-term care or provide support to family caregivers;\n\n(c) Long-term care insurance is costly and may not be affordable to low-and-middle income families and may not cover essential services for the length of time needed for an Alzheimer's patient; and\n\n(d) Providing respite care services to those with Alzheimer's may delay or supplant the need for transfer to a long-term skilled nursing facility, allowing for the individual with Alzheimer's to remain in his or her home environment.","path":["MS Code","Title 43"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T20:49:39Z","sha256":"bf23c6c8f52b4f55d257433b2124d84939e5943fdbf1268e5d8fe83cdc6ec9b2","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-43-63-1","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-43-63-5","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}