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Julie Bove > wrote:

: "W. Baker" > wrote in message
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: > If your Dad is on regular medicare, not an advantage plan(Ieach of those
: > works differently) he should get certain home care once he is ou of the
: > rehab. with Syd it was 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, of home health aid,
: > who can cook or do light cleaning and help with personal care, 3 times a
: > week physical therapy and 3 times a week occupational therapy. this help
: > decreases over time unti it disappears. It can help but you miht need to
: > hire someone for more hours if your Mother can't handle everything.


: They have a maid. They will not be in the house when she is in. He would
: not put up with other people coming into the house. And I don't know what
: kind of Medicare he has.

If he can't go to the bathroom by himself, or walk around, or shower, or
many other of life's activities, he may not have the choice, unless your
mother is a trained health care aid and strong and is willing to devote
herself entirely to being there to take care of him. Evenif he gets
better over time, there will be a loooooong convelescence. How old is he?
that can also affect how wel lhe can recuperate and how long it will take.
Strokes can be fairly mild or very terrible, It sounds like he is in tthe
middle somewhere, but it take a strong ewill, hard work and time even in
the best of cases unless it is caught in the firs 3 hours and he gets the
shot that dissovles the clot. If he finds he canno accept paid help, and
your mother cannot handle it he may well find himself in a nursing home
before very long, even if it might not be fully necessary. In that case,
once he has used up his savings etc, he will, most liki=y go on Medicade
to pay the home and there will be a lien on his house so it can't be sold
unless the State gets it money back that it has paid out for the nursing
home.

I sincerely hope he recouperates adn can resume a normal or close to
normal life, but that cannot be asured at this time and what the physical
therrapy community considers functinal may well NOT be where he was befoe
or where he and your mother would like him to be. Sorry to be so blunt,
but I have seen so much of this in my life. In famillies with little
money who want to avoid nusrsing homes, the kids have to do a great deal
to help out, either pysicall taking care orf that is impossible, in doign
the shopping, managing, just baby sittingso mom can get out for a little
time, etc.

Wendy