Hello everyone. My 81 year old mom has been receiving 12 hours Medicaid Aid service but now requires more as he health issues has gotten worse.
So we applied for regular "every day" services but was denied so asked for a 'Fair Hearing'. Even though we had sent in supporting docs from her Doctor plus ER admittance after she had fallen into the bathtub 2 years ago and hit her head this made no difference.
The person from the Hearing said she can only split up the 12 hours so like 2 hours Aid visit 6 days per week. But since my mom is diabetic. is on insulin, has hip, knee and right shoulder problems plus regular low blood sugar and dizziness issues all which can occur at any given time during the day or night, doesn;t make sense to me to have an aid at a specified time for obvious reasons.
So can anyone please tell me what exactly qualifies the elderly to have regular daily Aid service please, does it mean this only applies to 'bed-ridden' elderly people?
If your Medicaid workers cannot explain it, you can bet we can't either. You may, sadly, be looking at in facility care at some point soon if you cannot otherwise afford more care. I am so sorry.
Try your Office of Aging.
that’s it.
System is quite broken.