She is 89 and has alzheimer's. I want to bring her home. She is a two person assist. How do I get PT at home and how to get her insurance and medicare to pay for hospital bed, walker, etc. I will need to rent a lift as I person cannot take care of her. Or do you think that she is better off staying in the nursing home.
Unless you can pay for everything you need for her and be with her 24/7, I think she'd be better off in a nursing home with you nearby as her advocate. She needs an enormous amount of help. To try to do that at home would be a huge undertaking. Also, getting PT at is difficult in many places and impossible in others. Medicare will likely pay for a walker, but not likely a hospital bed for your home. She may have another policy that will cover that, but I don't think that's your biggest issue. Please think this through carefully.
Take care of yourself, too.
Carol
question is, can Medicare help pay for some of the home care? And if so, how does that work?
The need for a person is to help mom get up and off the bed and to the walker and back as the complications from the hip surgery has "messed up my organs" and the bathroom issues come up at night.
Her doctors are all very proud of her recovery and her attitude of "can do" and are glad she wanted to go home as MRSA is in the rehab places back there.