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[quote=Anonymous]Your dad's doctor doesn't need to prescribe home health care, and it is unlikely to be covered by insurance or by Medicare (but you can check and see.)

Usually insurance or medicare will cover brief periods of home health care for after surgery or an accident or illness requiring hospitalization, etc, but only if skilled nursing care or P/T is needed.

Your dad doesn't need skilled nursing, he just needs a home health aide to be there to help him if he needs it and to do he things your mom would do for him.

This is usually private pay and costs around $20-$25 an hour.

(Since you live nearby the easiest and cheapest thing for you to do would be to handle all his medications yourself because home health aides can't touch those without special certification.  I bought 4 identical weekly packs with space for morning and evening pills, and fill a 4 week supply all at one time.  It takes me about 15 minutes and as I do it I can quickly see which medications need to be refilled.)[/quote]

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