My father has dementia and has been living on his own but things are getting to bad for that to happen any more. I was planning on moving him closer to me (I live two hrs away) and just checking on him daily, but I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on places that will accept social security only that are not nursing homes. I feel so lost!
The transferring means he can get out of bed to a chair (it can be by using a walker or a cane) and then getting from a chair to the toilet without support of another person but by using grab-bars or his walker for support). They are state regulated so there should be a list of board & care homes on a state database.
It's kinda like a low-rent dormitory. Good luck.
You could call your county's office for aging, too, to see what options are available for your father if you can move him closer to you. There may be a residency requirement (he may have to have lived in the county for X number of months or years), so be sure to ask about that.