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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad has Parkinson’s.

What are the financial resources available?

Why did you bring up the VA? Does he have some sort of benefits?

I would first try to bring in at home caregivers if you can afford it.

He may not get very good care at rehab. Plus he will likely get COVID. I have four relatives who got COVID in rehab and none of them were able to get paxlovid in time. The rehab doctors weren’t able to prescribe it. They could give him sedating medicine that could make it hard for him to swallow. It could lead to the end.

Could you take FMLA?[/quote]

He has a disability rating with the VA. He's only been enrolled in VA for 2 years (they refused to apply for many years, I did when they were both hospitalized after the hip break incident) but they are much better than the private drs he sees. He has a social worker and they are the ones who do the bathing help. I feel like he'd get better care at the va hosp an hour away than at our local hospital.

I can take FMLA (work for a fed agency). I actually have a case on him because he's incapable of self care, I'm using it tomorrow in fact because of my mom's appt and not being able to leave him alone. My concern is, I can't take it open-endedly, meaning I need a plan for him.

I hear you about the covid. He's vaxxed, he did get it in 2021 but it had little effect on him (thankfully!). [/quote]

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