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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We couldn't afford help and couldn't find a program to assist so when I was scared to leave my MIL home alone in our home we had to put her in a facility.  Medicaid will pay for a nursing home/memory care but will not pay assisted living.  They look at the 5 hold back and other things.[/quote]

Do you mean memory care at a nursing home is covered, but not memory care at an assisted living place?  [/quote]

Memory Care at a nursing home is the same as nursing care.  Its just a locked ward.  My MIL never needed locked as she would not run but they forced her into one anyway. Assisted living doesn't provide a lot of supports so if your loved one needs that much help they need nursing care.  We looked at assisted living but she was not independent enough to do it (it was income based).  So, we had to put her into a medicaid nursing home.  I just couldn't do it anymore, we had no money to hire caregivers as she only had social security and we had a small house/no where to put the caregiver comfortably.[/quote]

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