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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sunrise is $300/day, but I heard some directors can work with families to put two people in 1 place.[/quote]

You realize that is over $100,000 a year.[/quote]

My mother started out at Sunrise, in a studio/room that cost about $4500/month.  As her need for help increased, so did the bill, until she was paying over $6500/month for the room plus various "a la carte" services.  We had a few terrible incidents of neglect there which caused us to move her to a smaller, memory-care-specific assisted living community.  There, she paid a flat monthly fee that covered everything she needed - $7950/month.

Thank goodness she saved diligently during her working life.  [/quote]

What's really hard about this is that the lady in the next bed qualifies for Medicaid and isn't paying anything for the same service.[/quote]

Not so.  This was an assisted living community, not skilled nursing aka nursing home.  There was a nursing home/skilled nursing attached to the assisted living community, with a handful of Medicaid-accepting beds.  Full-pay residents had priority for those once their money ran out.

Had my mom needed skilled nursing, my plan was to move her there at full pay so that she would have priority for a Medicaid bed if necessary later.  But she died before that became necessary.[/quote]

Under the medicaid waiver, Assisted Living can be paid for.  The problem is that their is a 5 year wait list.  So, if you have a concern that someone may need it, call and get on the wait list.  Wish I knew about it.  They also pay for group homes and other living situations.  We have heard rumors that if you are in a nursing home and can be better served in assisted living, then they may make you a priority on the waiver but we couldn't figure that out.[/quote]

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