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I am caring for my 90 year old mom. I can't work because she can't be left alone. She gets medicaid and medicare. I was wondering if her medicaid would pay for care giving.
I wonder what level of care your mom needs. It may be that she is able to function in a Memory Care facility. This is assisted living, not a nursing home.
Are you asking if Medicaid would pay for her care in a facility or if they will pay you directly? If you want to keep her in your home, I would contact the program called NC PACE. They have a website about their programs that pays for people to stay in their homes. It sounds impressive, but they do not provide around the clock care in the home, which may be something you are going to need with a dementia patient.
The state of NC pays assisted living, including Memory Care, through what they call Special Assistance, much like Medicaid. I would speak to the medicaid case worker and her doctor about completing an FL-2 form. This form will outline how much assistance the patient needs and where she should be placed.
There are many stories here on this site about people who have refused to place their loved ones with Alzheimer's in a nursing home to the destruction of their own mental, physical and financial health.
One third of caregivers who try to do this end up dying before the person they are caring for does. What good will you be to your mother if you self-destruct or die while taking care of her? If that happens and the odds are very much against you in dealing with this disease, then your mother would end up in a nursing home anyway, paid for by medicaid.
Do you think that in her right mind that your mother would want you to destroy your own mental and physical health as well as your present and future financial well being? No, no loving mom would want their daughter or son to do this to themselves.
Did you make some promise to your mother years ago about not sending her to a nursing home? If you did, things have changed drastically in terms of what is realistic about that promise. Believe me, you are not in a position to keep that promise if that is what you did.
Medicaid will pay for your mother's care in a nursing home which with her having Alzheimer's she need to go for her care will soon become far too much for you as one person to do 24/7 on your own. She may be at that point already. You need your own life, your own income and your own provisions for your own retirement. So find a nursing home that will accept medicaid and move her there with the doctor's orders.
First you would need a doctor's order for bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting and whatever other ADL's (activities of daily living) she needs help with. Then you arrange the care through her Medicaid Social Worker. If she needs 24/7 care, it is more cost effective for Medicaid to pay for a nursing home. Talk it over with her caseworker.
By proceeding, I agree that I understand the following disclosures:
I. How We Work in Washington.
Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment.
You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints.
Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
VI. No Waiver of Your Rights.
APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.
I agree that:
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I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information").
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APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink.
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APFM may send all communications to me electronically via e-mail or by access to an APFM web site.
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If I want a paper copy, I can print a copy of the Disclosures or download the Disclosures for my records.
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This E-Sign Acknowledgement and Authorization applies to these Disclosures and all future Disclosures related to APFM's services, unless I revoke my authorization. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time (except where we have already disclosed information before receiving your revocation.) This authorization will expire after one year.
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You consent to APFM's reaching out to you using a phone system than can auto-dial numbers (we miss rotary phones, too!), but this consent is not required to use our service.
Are you asking if Medicaid would pay for her care in a facility or if they will pay you directly? If you want to keep her in your home, I would contact the program called NC PACE. They have a website about their programs that pays for people to stay in their homes. It sounds impressive, but they do not provide around the clock care in the home, which may be something you are going to need with a dementia patient.
The state of NC pays assisted living, including Memory Care, through what they call Special Assistance, much like Medicaid. I would speak to the medicaid case worker and her doctor about completing an FL-2 form. This form will outline how much assistance the patient needs and where she should be placed.
There are many stories here on this site about people who have refused to place their loved ones with Alzheimer's in a nursing home to the destruction of their own mental, physical and financial health.
One third of caregivers who try to do this end up dying before the person they are caring for does. What good will you be to your mother if you self-destruct or die while taking care of her? If that happens and the odds are very much against you in dealing with this disease, then your mother would end up in a nursing home anyway, paid for by medicaid.
Do you think that in her right mind that your mother would want you to destroy your own mental and physical health as well as your present and future financial well being? No, no loving mom would want their daughter or son to do this to themselves.
Did you make some promise to your mother years ago about not sending her to a nursing home? If you did, things have changed drastically in terms of what is realistic about that promise. Believe me, you are not in a position to keep that promise if that is what you did.
If she needs 24/7 care, it is more cost effective for Medicaid to pay for a nursing home. Talk it over with her caseworker.