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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again. I will most definitely navigate her through the channels of Medicaid etc. I guess I should have gone through my post throughly before posting. She wants to live with us and pay for her bills. That's her grand plan. [/quote]

Bring up the subject of Medicaid and how you will initiate this plan.  Tell her this is the plan, unless she has other ideas.  A reality check is in order.

If you have no intention of bringing her to your home, you need to say so.  This isn't as simple as it sounds, by the way.  Depending upon her health and limitations, it is no small task to simply bring in an elderly person into your home to live.  I had a difficult time bringing my elderly, frail father to my home to even visit; it was hard for him to navigate the stairs in our split level home.  It took my DH and I to safely get him inside to our main level and then down four steps to our family room.  He needed to be near a bathroom and then had to use our tiny powder room - that was a feat in and of itself. The bathroom was too small for him to use with ease and comfort.

His own home was equally unsuitable - no main level bedroom, no main level full bathroom, steps to enter house, huge winding staircase up to bedrooms, etc.

My dad lives in a nursing home now.

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