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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! > >****************** >Kim DaRosa >Investor Relations & >Marketing Assistant >JER Partners > >>1650 Tysons Boulevard >>Suite 1600 >>McLean, VA 22102 >>(703)714-8064 (direct) >>(703)714-8141 (fax) >> >[log in to unmask] >****************** > > > >-----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 > > >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn