My state has a web page advising where/how to apply for the MFP Waiver Program (a Transitioning of people like my mom out of a skilled nursing facility and back to a residence in our community. "MFP" stands for Money Follows the Person [or Patient] ).
We have selected the caregiver we want Mom to live with, and Medicaid/Medicare stand to save a LOT of taxpayer money by facilitating this move.
Are the social workers in this field simply spread too thin nowadays?
Is there any kind of "workaround" l might employ, so as to go straight to Medicaid to apply?
It's worth noting that, due to the pandemic, the nursing facility is going into lockdowns on a frequent basis. My mom, a Memory Care patient, is being left alone in her room for hours at a time, day after day, with no social contact and no visits from family or friends. Seeing what that does to her, I feel that prioritizing virus control to the exclusion of a person's mental/emotional well-being is cruel in the extreme; unsophisticated; even criminal.
A word of advice to those who may be considering placement of a debilitated parent in a skilled nursing facility: DON'T DO IT -- not as long as COVID-19 continues to disrupt our society. Just find another way. As things now stand, my dear mother - and we her family - are trapped in a situation almost beyond remedy.
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I agree that not considering the highly negative effect this isolation from loved ones has on a patient is cruel and criminal.
For these reasons, I will opt for in home care for as long as that is feasible. When/if mom's condition gets to be too much for living at home at all, I hope that covid will be a memory or just a "normal" part of our lives and that places will stop being so ridiculously strict.
Good luck with getting your mom moved ASAP.
They often are limited and many have waiting lists.
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/long-term-services-supports/money-follows-person/index.html
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