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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course there are group homes in Maryland. Go to the DDA website and look at the lists of service providers.  If the individual is in a wheelchair and has mobility impairment, there are specialized group homes that are handicap accessible.  Staffed 24-7.  With people trained in medication administration.  
The days of institutions are over. Community based housing is the rule now.  Look around. There are probably group homes in your neighborhood. There is still time for aunt to make arrangements for her sons care while she is able to make the choices. [/quote]

You are extremely naive.  No one is denying that group homes exist.  Do you have any idea that the waiting lists to enter them is YEARS -- DECADES -- long?  Teenagers are on the waiting list for placement in later life. The group homes pick and choose who can live there.

By the way, my child is on the waiting list JUST for DDA services now in her 5th year.  So it's really not a matter of just dialing the DDA and telling them what you need just like ordering a pizza.  DDA has also recently in the past two years fired every single one of their county employees and hired contractors.  The contractors are learning the system.  Which means mass confusion.  We just two months ago had an intake interview for DDA services after being in their system and receiving letters every six months letting us know we were "high priority."

To the person who thinks having an eighty year old caretaker somehow magically makes you an emergency for them, dream on.

Why do people believe there is some sort of magical safety net here?  [b]And then when the moms of autistic kids or disabled kids kill themselves or their children, everyone screams for them to be jailed or waterboarded or tortured.[/b]  Unreal.[/quote]

I wholeheartedly agree. My DS isn't impaired to the extend this woman's was but I understand the toll of taking care of a SN kid.  http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/05/justice/oregon-mother-autism-son-death/index.html People are so very naive.  [/quote]

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