Nursing home for undocumented friend

[Anonymous]

Joseph's House may have ideas. Or N Street Village. If you get her admitted to a hospital with an emergency, a social worker will be there for discharge...but plenty of people are discharged to shelters/the street. Can you take her in? Does she go to a church where someone would help? Is going back to her country of origin an option?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some jurisdictions -- including DC and Montgomery County -- have medicaid paid with local dollars (not federal) for undocumented immigrants. It doesn't cover everything and I don't know if it covers long term care.

I don't think DC Alliance covers nursing homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To clarify, she came on the guest visa 15 years ago and never went back. She has a passport from her country of birth(OP)

That is undocumented. Google "undocumented" defined. She didn't present herself to an immigration station upon entering and she's lacking proper documentation to be here legally or to work

That’s literally what I said. In the title. Undocumented. (OP)

[Anonymous]

I work in this space and no. You'd bankrupt an organization for just 1 person. The mody affordable option is to go back

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She has documents, just not for the USA. She’s not "undocumented".

Right. She should go wherever those documents she has are accepted. Anyway if she has money saved, it could go a long way in foreign countries which usually pay much higher rates on deposits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend in a very sad situation. She requires 24hr care facility, but undocumented which means no Medicaid. No income. Early onset dementia. She has lived the US for the last 15 years. Is there any hope in finding her a nursing home facility in the DMV area? Are there any charitable organizations? TIA

Unfortunately, the difference between when family and friends think a person needs 24 hour care from a nursing home vs when a person qualifies through Medicaid or long-term insurance or charity for a nursing home is a big, big gap. Who is taking care of her now? You start declining with early onset dementia and it takes a while to qualify for a nursing home. Can she bath and eat by herself? Is she mobile?

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, no. I’m a social worker and it can be very hard to find a Medicaid bed for a citizen in a nursing home, and there is no charity resource for someone who is undocumented and in need of nursing home care.

Can she afford an assisted living that is more like a group home? They are usually in houses in neighborhoods rather than a facility and are less expensive. But the best bet might be to help her get back to her country of origin so she can access whatever services they have there.

[Anonymous]

Try Catholic Charities. They have a lot of immigrant services, so if they can't help directly they might know where else to try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To clarify, she came on the guest visa 15 years ago and never went back. She has a passport from her country of birth(OP)

That is undocumented. Google "undocumented" defined. She didn't present herself to an immigration station upon entering and she's lacking proper documentation to be here legally or to work

She absolutely did present herself to an immigration station upon entering if she came with a guest visa. She overstayed her authorized stay. That difference doesn't matter to getting medicaid but it often matters for what immigration benefits she might have been eligible for.

[Anonymous]

I would contact her family and embassy if everything else fails.
It would be much cheaper to care for her in her home country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Joseph's House may have ideas. Or N Street Village. If you get her admitted to a hospital with an emergency, a social worker will be there for discharge...but plenty of people are discharged to shelters/the street. Can you take her in? Does she go to a church where someone would help? Is going back to her country of origin an option?

This woman could live 20 more years and needs full time care. Who would do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of undocumented, like fully off the grid? Or in the system in some temporary status?

Nope. No temporary status, just expired guest visa.

So an illegal immigrant. Which means she hasn’t paid into the system and it owes her nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of undocumented, like fully off the grid? Or in the system in some temporary status?

Nope. No temporary status, just expired guest visa.

So an illegal immigrant. Which means she hasn’t paid into the system and it owes her nothing.

In 15 years of working, she has most assuredly paid into the system. But, yes, it will give her nothing.

[Anonymous]

She should go back to her country where presumably care is less expensive. Does she have family who can take care of her here? That’s probably the only other option.

[Anonymous]

Home country.