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elleng

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Tue Aug-12-08 09:28 PM
Response to Reply #12

40. There's no rehab for such,

as you suggest.

We're similarly situated, and paying a fortune of my folks' retirement savings for nursing home care for my mother.

Possibilities include bring her 'home,' and care for her with help of hospice and/or other local resources, and find nursing home and pay with medicaid and her social security.

Dementia and alzheimers are demanding a huge toll on society, INCLUDING employees at 'decent' facilities. Families must CONSTANTLY watch what's being done to/for patient, take moment to moment care. This changes our lives, but that's the price we all pay for living in an industrial world; in olden days, and prolly in other cultures today, families care for elderly through thick and thin.

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Reply #40: There's no rehab for such, [View All]