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KamaAina

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22. Home- and community-based services are superior alternatives to nursing homes

Reply to riverwalker (Original post)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 06:19 PM

Jun 2012

there are programs generically called "Money Follows the Person" that can help your loved one live in his or her own home instead of a soulless, corporate nursing home.

Your local Center for Independent Living should be able to help. Find yours here:

http://www.ilru.org/html/publications/directory/index.html

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If your parent/grandparent is is a nursing home [View all] riverwalker Jun 2012 OP

It sounds like it's just a form thing that's done. Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #1

Throw it in the trash and forget about it. femmocrat Jun 2012 #2

+1 Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #4

Apparently there are "filial support" laws. BadgerKid Jun 2012 #9

I don't understand why you think marybourg Jun 2012 #3

I agree. Why should people who can't afford their own house have to pay the Medicaid costs pnwmom Jun 2012 #7

Just wait Pennsylvania has already sued under exboyfil Jun 2012 #5

Yes -- those filial responsibility laws are unfair. I hope the states never turn to them again, pnwmom Jun 2012 #8

"Medicaid is going to grow like crazy as more and more indigents go into nursing homes." PRETZEL Jun 2012 #13

No one care giver could meet my grandmother's exboyfil Jun 2012 #19

I'm not saying that there aren't situations where nursing home care PRETZEL Jun 2012 #27

Same thing happened to my mother-in-law. A Brand New World Jun 2012 #6

Credit card companies are relentless about surviving family paying off debts left by lunatica Jun 2012 #10

How are offspring responsible for parents' debts? trof Jun 2012 #15

They aren't, but that doesn't stop the endless calls lunatica Jun 2012 #16

What happens when you tell them to eff off? trof Jun 2012 #21

They call you back lunatica Jun 2012 #24

I can also confirm this from personal experience SteveG Jun 2012 #23

Deepest sympathy malaise Jun 2012 #11

Didn't they tell them or you this when they were placed on medicaid? sammytko Jun 2012 #12

If there is no estate left, then there's nothing for them to collect mainer Jun 2012 #14

I recieved the same letter when my Mom passed vankuria Jun 2012 #17

It still boils down to OVER PRICED sorefeet Jun 2012 #18

My grandmother's nursing home is exboyfil Jun 2012 #20

Home- and community-based services are superior alternatives to nursing homes KamaAina Jun 2012 #22

That's what the Aging Waiver Program is here, PRETZEL Jun 2012 #26

This is why my grandmother, who recently passed.... moriah Jun 2012 #25