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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Couple options.
1. Aunt moves in with you or your cousin
2. Aunt gets in-home assistance.  Number of hours per week/day would be dependent on your Aunt's needs.
3. Aunt goes into an assisted living home.
4. Inform social services and let them decide her fate.

Lastly, If you Aunt has not assets then the State would cover the cost of assisted living.  Either in her own home or at an assisted living complex.[/quote]

And what state is this?  [/quote]

This is Not true in most areas.  In MD, for example, the state does not pay for assisted living.  There are some subsided programs but they are still several thousand  per month with only very limited support.  There is a medicaid waiver that has at least a five year wait list so you need to place their name on the list in advanced.  The state has a long term care medicaid program that is separate from regular medicaid that pays for nursing homes.  It take a lot of time to qualify and you basically need to go from a hospital to a nursing home.  We did it without a hospitalization but it was very difficult to get a nursing home to accept Medicaid pending as you cannot be approved until after you are in the facility.  It is a complicated mess. The county claimed they had in home support and paid adult day care but we tried for months to get it and could not figure out how.  [/quote]

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