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[quote=Anonymous]When my MIL needed to go to rehab after a hospital stay, the hospital social worker helped arrange it. My SIL is a nurse at a nursing home and we were able to get her sent there. Not sure what the mechanics of that were behind the scenes. I'm sure we had to choose a place with a Medicare bed but it's not like we had no choice in where she went. MIL needed to stay because we could not care for her at home. Medicare paid for the rehab part. She had little assets and needed to apply for Medicaid, which she is now on. She had to spend down a month or two of assets paying the nursing home as a private pay patient before she qualified for Medicaid. It was relatively straightforward, but my husband had POA and did the work of applying. I'm not sure how this would work if there wasn't someone who could gain access to the elderly person's financial statements and apply for Medicaid for them.[/quote]
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