Category Archives: Long-Term Care and nursing homes
Saving home
We are saving home, health, and hearth. :- Doug.
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Getting folks qualified
This is my task: to get folks Medicaid qualified. :- Doug.
Qualifying for Medicaid
You want to get Mom qualified for Medicaid: there are ways that are solid, that are legal and ethical, that work; they need to be done with care to follow the complex and ever-changing rules. :- Doug.
worry of running out of money
You want help for Medicaid qualification for reasons financial: you could lose much to the nursing home. You want help with the burdens: you could do this yourself, but help will make your gathering of documents more efficient and effective, … Continue reading
Meeting Daddy
Having a true conversation in the nursing home can mean meeting Daddy again for the first time. :- Doug.
Fear of the nursing home
Fear of the nursing home is a failure of imagination. :- Doug.
To sing his or her life
Here’s an elder in a nursing home, or here’s one with dementia: What could it mean to hear this one encouraged to tell or sing his or her life? :- Doug.
Can it be fulfilling?
Can living with a nursing home be fulfilling? :- Doug.
What has your life taught you?
What has your life taught you about caring for another and about accepting care? Whom have you met and what have they taught you about being an elder, about the role of the elder in the family and community? :- … Continue reading
Mom does not have to go broke
Mom does not have to go broke if Dad goes to the nursing home. She can buy things, she can loan things, she is in charge…. :- Doug.
Ways to pay
I help people work through their end of life questions, and I help them find ways to pay for a place like this—or even a nursing home—without becoming paupers. :- Doug.
When you think they may not
I help people get on Medicaid, even when you think they may not qualify. :- Doug.
Mom and Dad and spouse have died
Mom and Dad and spouse have died there is no old homestead to which to return we can make our home here if we choose among this people :- Doug.
hospital-think!
You can do better than hospital-think! It is not right nor even salutary to concentrate 100% on disease; we need to concentrate on living. Escape the institution: help them elope! :- Doug.