How do you get a ride home from the hospital when you have no money, family or friends?

This is confusing. Most pharmacist will deliver these days. I don’t understand the piece about Medicaid making you wait. As far as transportation goes, if you belong to a church, you may have access to volunteers who will drive you. Also, if you have a senior center nearby they may have transportation available very inexpensively.
Also, I don’t know where you live but your hospital social worker should know the local senior services.

This post is from August 2023.

It came back up because Lromero reponded to a reply. This person has posted their own question.

https://www.agingcare.com/questions/i-am-having-trouble-finding-resources-for-care-and-also-with-transportation-unless-i-give-medicaid-5-485704.htm

My own hospital typically gave out cab vouchers if a patient's mobility didn't allow public transit. We signed out cab vouchers much in the same way we signed out drugs.

If you are discharge and have no way to go home contact social services, or have the discharge nurses do that for you.

Lromero8355

Call your disability caseworker or conservator. Someone is paying for your housing, food, healthcare, and the computer you're using right now.

Call them. Or you could lift a finger to help yourself and call a few pharmacies that acually have delivery service.

You are putting me in memory of the story of the fox and the grapes.

There was this hungry fox laying out in a field. He was crying and lamenting about how he was starving and he had no food. Then miraculously a vine of grapes appeared above him. All the fox had to do was reach up and take them.

The fox wanted the grapes to fall directly into his mouth. So he sat there in the field crying and lamenting about how hungry he was until he died of starvation.

Don't be the fox. Take some steps to help yourself.

You tell the discharge planner. Typically you will receive a taxi voucher

Is the Social Worker or discharge planner aware of ur situation. If not, they should be. They have to know when they send you home you have no support. Otherwise, its considered an unsafe discharge.

Any service the Hospital will call to take you home, you will be responsible for paying for. Are you on Medicaid for health or in home care? If so they provide transportation but you may have to be signed up with them. Your County Senior bussing can pick you up. But, you need to talk to the Social Worker to get help.

Where's home? Will money for food, medicines & other necessities be needed too? Or is this back to supported living?

More info please if you don't mind. How long in the hospital?

Hospital will arrange a ride for you home, through one of the ride services, if their vans are busy or have stopped running for the day

They will arrange transit home; contact social worker.

My worry is what about when you ARE home. What support do you have for groceries, any help you may need at home?

You can call Uber or Lyft from your cell phone.

The hospital might call a cab for you if you're unable to use Uber or Lyft.

You could ask the hospital if they have a van service that could take you home.