If your parent/grandparent is is a nursing home

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13. "Medicaid is going to grow like crazy as more and more indigents go into nursing homes."

Gary Alexander who heads DPW in Pennslyvania just did exactly that with the changes he made to Pennslyvania's Aging Waiver Program which is a Title 19 funded program.

Essentially what he did, in the name of cost savings (and sarcasm isn't even appropriate here) is adopted a model where the role of Pennsylvania's Area Agencies on Aging, who have administered this program since the Waiver was started, are now starting to question whether or not it's feasable to even continue participating in coordinating care for PA's Medicaid eligible consumers.

The whole purpose of the Aging Waiver Program was to allow our elderly citizens to remain in their homes by providing high quality care and hands on care management. Medicaid beds are hard to get as it is in nursing homes.