You are on Medicaid. So yes, you can be asked to share a room.
You are lucky that you are being allowed to stay at the AL you have been living in. Otherwise, you would need to go to a LTC facility where you definitely share a room. My Mom shared a room with 3 other people.
So sorry this is happening to you but its how things go when the State now handles your care. I am with you, I would not want a roommate either but life happens and as hard as it is, we need to adjust.
Reread your contract and see if this option is provided for them to make such a decision w/o consulting you first. If there is no contractual support for such a move, I would challenge it, in writing, and document everything.
You might also consider searching for an elder law attorney with background in litigating against AL facilities, or at least litigation. I'm not suggesting you sue, but it might come to that if you want to stay in this place but not in a double occupancy situation.
I would also, in writing, inquire how much your monthly costs will be reduced if this is implemented.
I'm also kind of surprised, assuming that this place has so many potential occupants. Is it a small facility? Crowded? Well staffed?
If you can afford to pay ALF for separate occupancy, then there is no reason you have to live double occupancy. Pretty much that simple. If you have not the funds to afford the single unit on your own, you would need to consider the other options. Wishing you the best.
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You are on Medicaid. So yes, you can be asked to share a room.
You are lucky that you are being allowed to stay at the AL you have been living in. Otherwise, you would need to go to a LTC facility where you definitely share a room. My Mom shared a room with 3 other people.
So sorry this is happening to you but its how things go when the State now handles your care. I am with you, I would not want a roommate either but life happens and as hard as it is, we need to adjust.
17 people took time to answer and you never responded.
I, for one, am not going to give advice to the same poster multiple times for the same question.
But, yes, you are living off the taxpayers and that is what happens. When you don't make a plan you live with the consequences. Sorry, not sorry.
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You might also consider searching for an elder law attorney with background in litigating against AL facilities, or at least litigation. I'm not suggesting you sue, but it might come to that if you want to stay in this place but not in a double occupancy situation.
I would also, in writing, inquire how much your monthly costs will be reduced if this is implemented.
I'm also kind of surprised, assuming that this place has so many potential occupants. Is it a small facility? Crowded? Well staffed?