Please check with an attorney. I was informed that the home does not
count as a assets and that is what was written in the medicaid rulings.
 the individual can not have over 2500. in assests excluding the car and
home.

It doesn't matter if u are a senior or someone young.
nancy m

DaRosa, Kim wrote:

>Ray, thanks so much.  What's it's boiled down to is we have to sell the
>family house in order to pay for her care.  Oh sure, Medicaid will pay but I
>understand that whatever my mom owns, they'll put a lien against it.  My
>parents worked too hard for their house so to keep from the state taking it,
>we have to sell it.  I cry everyday about this because it's the house I grew
>up in and I can't stand to think of someone else living in it.  I know it's
>something I'm just going to have to get over because it's for my mom.  I
>think it's bull@#$# that these seniors work so hard all their lives and are
>basically left with nothing in the end, not even their dignity.
>
>Medicaid won't pay until my mom only has $2,000.  Since she has more than
>that, we have to sell the house and keep paying until it's all gone.  Once
>Medicaid kicks in, they'll even take the pension and social security she
>gets every month.  Oh, I'm sorry, we were told that she could keep $60 of it
>for whatever she may need.  WHOOPIE!
>
>I'm very hostile about the whole Medicaid thing and how my mom is being
>treated.  I think it sucks that money comes out of our paychecks every month
>for stuff like insurance, medicare/medicaid and we still get screwed in the
>end.  As far as my mom's treatment, she's not being treated "badly" she's
>just ignored a lot.  They don't take her to physical therapy like they
>should (she may go 2-3 times a week), she gets her medication on THEIR
>schedule so god for bid if she's in pain, she has slept in a wet "diaper"
>all night because the CNAs don't always answer the bells when they should.
>She has lost all her dignity and I think she starting to give up.
>
>I've read other emails about how much CNAs are the country are getting
>minimum wage and McDonald's employees are making more.  I understand what
>they are saying and I don't think it's right but it's a job they chose to
>do.  I'm a former CNA and I know how hard it can be.  Besides, we're paying
>$7,000 a month for my mom's care and I should see that she's being cared
>for.  When my mom rings the bell, she shouldn't have to wait 20 minutes for
>a CNA to come nor should I have  to go searching for one.  They should be
>there!
>
>I'm jumping off the soapbox now.  Thanks for letting me vent!
>
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>Kim DaRosa
>Investor Relations &
>Marketing Assistant
>JER Partners
>
>>1650 Tysons Boulevard
>>Suite 1600
>>McLean, VA  22102
>>(703)714-8064 (direct)
>>(703)714-8141 (fax)
>>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rayilyn Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 10:46 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Nursing Home for PWP/24hrCG
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>
>Kim, the 24 hr nurse will bankrupt you unless you are Bill Gates. My mom had
>one for a month after her stroke.  She now has  CG 3 hrs, 3 days a week.
>Also, to go into one of these chambers of horrors will take ALL your $ as
>well as your dignity.  I'm currently looking into Riverside's "Shared
>Housing" for myself as I have no CG/  This could work with luck, but it's  a
>long shot.  Ray
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