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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's very kind of you to consider this. However, think hard about whether you will be able to provide the kind of care your FIL needs. You have three very young kids and full time jobs... it's a full time 24/7 job caring for someone that ill, particularly someone with dementia. Who will be responsible for him overnight? Who will wash him and attend to his bathroom needs/hygiene? Are you and your husband truly prepared to do all that on top of everything else you already do? As PP said, Medicaid will not pay for you to have the kind of help you will need, so you will need to either do it yourself or hire someone. [/quote]

After someone is in a nursing home for a specific amount of time medicaid will allow them to return home with support but the support was only about an hour a few days a week.  There was no way we could make that work with dementia.  But, they have to be in nursing care to access the program.  If you get them into a nursing home, DO NOT pull them out if they are a medicaid bed as its near impossible to get one.[/quote]

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