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It's their job to try and place patients with their families. 
It's your choice to refuse that pressure and oversee placement in a Medicare facility.

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Is it considered “granny dumping” or elder abuse or neglect if you refuse to let the elder return to your house (which they do not own nor have a lease)? The elder had been staying there while healthy, but the house is unsuitable for a sick or disabled person (many stairs, no rails in shower, openings not wide enough, …). Moreover, person cannot give the assistance needed (bathing, cooking, toileting, etc). Relationship between elder and homeowner is parent-child. State is Maryland.[/quote]

No. Adult children who cannot care for their parents have the most leverage when they refuse to pick up their parent from the hospital or rehab place, citing inadequate care conditions at home. Then the state takes over. It's not pretty most of the time, but if their conditions are better than what you can offer, that's the reasoning for the switch. Elder abuse would be if you took your parent home and couldn't care for them, leading to them living in filth without the means to normal hygiene and sustenance.[/quote]

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