Anonymous wrote:Starting with an agency is by far the easiest option. Eventually you might want to poach individuals or find them by word of mouth but start with an agency.

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Anonymous wrote:If he stayed in the hospital for three nights or more, you have a month after discharge to get the referral to a rehab. You would call the hospital social worker and the primary care doc.

Also, if the situation is currently unsafe at home, you can take him back to the hospital. If you tell them there is no one to care for him they have to discharge him to rehab or skilled nursing, which is covered by Medicare for at least 100 days. But you have to have a hospital stay to access this care (which sucks).

Alternatively, if he wants to be home and can afford it, you could hire help to come in and care for him on a daily basis. This would be about $32 an hour and you would ideally get a friend to refer you to a good agency, but this can be set up very quickly. It is NOT covered by insurance.

You would layer in the Home Health people (covered by Medicare) which would be a nurse once a week and PT/OT up to twice a week. In my experience, not super effective but better than nothing.

The real question here is what is your dad's injury and does he have a reasonable chance at a recovery to independence again. If it's a short term fixable thing, try for in patient rehab for the best PT, but if he wants to be in his home and recovery is unclear/dicey, set up the home care for now. You can start it and stop it pretty quickly so if it's not working well, you are not committed.

Good luck OP! This stuff is so confusing and difficult but I'm sure you are going to figure it out and get your parents into a better situation.

I would do this, unless your parents are very wealthy. The hospital never should have discharged him. It's hard to find home health care even if you can afford it due to the shortage of workers.

Anonymous wrote:If he stayed in the hospital for three nights or more, you have a month after discharge to get the referral to a rehab. You would call the hospital social worker and the primary care doc.

Also, if the situation is currently unsafe at home, you can take him back to the hospital. If you tell them there is no one to care for him they have to discharge him to rehab or skilled nursing, which is covered by Medicare for at least 100 days. But you have to have a hospital stay to access this care (which sucks).

Alternatively, if he wants to be home and can afford it, you could hire help to come in and care for him on a daily basis. This would be about $32 an hour and you would ideally get a friend to refer you to a good agency, but this can be set up very quickly. It is NOT covered by insurance.

You would layer in the Home Health people (covered by Medicare) which would be a nurse once a week and PT/OT up to twice a week. In my experience, not super effective but better than nothing.

The real question here is what is your dad's injury and does he have a reasonable chance at a recovery to independence again. If it's a short term fixable thing, try for in patient rehab for the best PT, but if he wants to be in his home and recovery is unclear/dicey, set up the home care for now. You can start it and stop it pretty quickly so if it's not working well, you are not committed.

Good luck OP! This stuff is so confusing and difficult but I'm sure you are going to figure it out and get your parents into a better situation.

Anonymous wrote:If he stayed in the hospital for three nights or more, you have a month after discharge to get the referral to a rehab. You would call the hospital social worker and the primary care doc.

Also, if the situation is currently unsafe at home, you can take him back to the hospital. If you tell them there is no one to care for him they have to discharge him to rehab or skilled nursing, which is covered by Medicare for at least 100 days. But you have to have a hospital stay to access this care (which sucks).

Alternatively, if he wants to be home and can afford it, you could hire help to come in and care for him on a daily basis. This would be about $32 an hour and you would ideally get a friend to refer you to a good agency, but this can be set up very quickly. It is NOT covered by insurance.

You would layer in the Home Health people (covered by Medicare) which would be a nurse once a week and PT/OT up to twice a week. In my experience, not super effective but better than nothing.

The real question here is what is your dad's injury and does he have a reasonable chance at a recovery to independence again. If it's a short term fixable thing, try for in patient rehab for the best PT, but if he wants to be in his home and recovery is unclear/dicey, set up the home care for now. You can start it and stop it pretty quickly so if it's not working well, you are not committed.

Good luck OP! This stuff is so confusing and difficult but I'm sure you are going to figure it out and get your parents into a better situation.