He is on Medicaid and sometimes Medicare. He has been very sick and amputation of his left leg. He cannot transfer from bed to chair or toilet by himself and is very weak the nursing home in north Carolina wants to discharge him but he has no one there no family.
1. Does his doctor at the nursing home consider him to be a safe discharge in his current condition and does the doctor think he can travel that far to your home? Wanting to leave is understandable, but sometimes not enough. So it is not that they want to discharge him, but that he wants to leave? If he leaves, will your daughter drive him to your house?
2. How is he with his physical limitations be able to help you take care of your husband who has Alzheimer's? He is going to be one more patient for you to take care of and are you up to doing all of that physical lifting? How's your own health?
3. It is very nice that your daughter is helping out and wiling to live so far away from home, but for how much longer can she keep that up? Is she working while living there?
4. Can I assume that your daughter is his durable and medical POA since she's the one there taking care of the pets and overseeing his care?
5. He's on medicaid right and it is what is paying for his being in the nursing home?
That means NO money for his house bills or pets.
Do NOT move him to another state!!! You would have to re-apply to Medicaid in the new state. Big problems there.
Why does the nursing home in NC want to discharge your brother who is fully ambulatory?
He does not sound healthy enough to be moved.
2, His physical abilities are nil right now. No he would not be help he would be more work. I don't want him in my home. I just couldn't do it.
3. No my daughter is not currently working outside the home and wants to come home to help me but we are both so tied up with sympathy, empathy and quilt that we keep on what we are doing.
4. I am POA.
5. He is on Medicare right now with his Medicaid on hold.
I just would like him to be transfered to the nursing home in our town.