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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again - I am a 55 year old woman who is the caregiver for my severely disabled spouse. I read the article posted up thread with interest. It does seem that maintaining separate residences with someone you are dating/involved with in your later years is a wise idea. I've lately been noticing how everything involving health insurance, medicare, hospitalization discharge, and disability presumes that if the "loved one" has family members at home, those family members will take up the burden of care voluntarily and with no payment.  But if the same person was living alone, there is often an actual billing code for this: "Patient has no support at home" or something like that, which qualifies them for more assistance. Or so it seems.[/quote]

Our developmentally disabled sister lived with our parents until her early 50s. The amount of money she received when she lived at home was a pittance to what the group home received on her behalf. Fairly enraging.[/quote]

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