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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Medicare services are based on medical necessity as ordered by the physician, not on what is easier for the social worker. However even for people who qualify for in home personal care services (people who meet nursing home level of care and meet Medicaid income and eligibility requirements mostly) it is extremely hard to find qualified workers right now. Also extremely hard to find nursing home beds. Social workers can’t fix that. [/quote] So since my aunt is end stage pancreatic cancer, lives alone ,has no kids, I guess the hospice will leave her in bed to die and rot,right? Because I am leaving in a week regardless - I have no choice.

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Do you think the social worker has more choice to move in with her than you do? Or more responsibility?

I'm not saying you have responsibility to do so. I'm saying your problem -- and it is a problem, since you are taking it out on other people -- is in insisting others have more responsibility than you. It is not sufficient to compel you, but that does not follow that that it must then be sufficient to compel them. [/quote]

It’s not my problem. And I won’t make it my problem.The state MUST step in as the situation is unsafe. That’s the damn law.[/quote]

The state must step in to make decisions for an adult that meets the legal definitions of competence in this area, against their explicit and expressed wishes? At gunpoint, or just by having the police drag them and then, I guess, handcuff them in place?[/quote]

According to hospice, she no longer meets the legal definition of competence. Such is the dying process[/quote]

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