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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a difficult situation.  Having been through it with my parents, relatives etc here are a few thoughts:

Contact your county's Council on Aging.  They are really helpful and know what they are doing.  They have access to a lot of resources and are supportive.

And secondly the hygiene thing might be what ends up moving things along.  FIL gets a urinary tract infection -- high fever -- ends up in the hospital.  The hospital also has people who can connect you to nursing care.  FIL can go to a nursing home "for rehab" and "until he is stronger" and given his situation -- that might never happen.

Good luck -- it's really hard.[/quote]

Yes. OP, if he ends up in the hospital, you need to get him to go to rehab until he is stronger. MediCARE pays for X number of days, based on if they are improving or not. Also (and maybe even now) you can get a physician to write an Rx for bathing. Where I am they allow 5 days/week, each visit about 30 minutes.

I am also pretty certain that most people who die quickly in nursing homes die from UTIs. And UTIs in elderly don't present as they do in younger people, so often people don't understand what it happening.[/quote]

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