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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really does haunt you. You did your very best, and you were present. I hope that helps ease the memories.

We are really bad as a society at letting the situation have to get to this point. It's happening over and over again, everywhere in this country. [/quote]

Thank you. This new social worker and hospice is SO good at putting things in perspective. I was feeling so guilty about having to divide my time and they really set me straight, telling me that my aunt is choosing her own fate, has options now, and won’t take them. It was important to hear that from the professionals, who have experienced this situation over and over.

The only advice I can give people is make sure the hospice you choose is non-profit and takes donations. World of difference. The other one was trying to guilt people into doing their job, asking 80 something year old friends of my aunt to do shiftwork. They were appalled, said they’d be here when they can (and have been visiting) but that’s all they could do. Her neighbor next door is a retired police officer and has been lovely as well. People are less afraid to come around since the switch in hospice. [/quote]

You seem unaware of the seriousness of the situation.  Once someone is in hospice they need 24/7 care.  That is not what hospice does.  They either need 24/7 volunteers, paid help or a nursing home/hospice facility.  She should not be caring for herself and handling her own medications.  All they can do is ask others to help.  They cannot do that kind of help.  If she has money, hire a caregiver.  If she has no money, she should go to a nursing home under long term care medicaid.[/quote]

A) She refuses to leave the house so that’s that - MediCARE would pay for hospital or short-term group home and she refuses to go
B) Totally broke and in debt
C) Meager SS and pension combined put her over the limit for Medicaid.

Social worker said “These are the people I find dead on the floor of their home, and frankly? Not a darn thing you can do”[/quote]

Its not a choice.  You put her in the hospital or you find a long term medicaid nursing home and put her in and do the paperwork.  You have ZERO idea what you are talking about.  The nursing home program is different than regular medicaid and has different income eligibility limits.  Medicare will not pay for a short-term group home.

And, yes, I do know because I involuntarily put my MIL in a long term medicaid nursing home.  She was not eligible for medicaid but got the long term care medicaid.

Grow up and stop excepting someone else to handle this.  [/quote]. Let me put this simply:

She
Cannot 
Go
On
Medicaid
According
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The
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Worker[/quote]

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