Entitlement? It puts a roof on my mom's head

[Omaha Steve]

My 87 year old mom currently lives in a senior apartment with a HUD subsidy. Once she is approved for Medicaid she will be going to assisted living. My sister and I are the only live with a family member options she has. We couldn't provide the level of care she now needs. There would be nobody with her in the weekday (7-5) hours either. Both homes have stairs while her balance requires a cane as a minimum. Therapy says she needs a walker, but she won't have any of it.

Republicans want her to live in the street and die fast. Shame on them ALL!

She paid taxes all her life until dad passed away in 94. She didn't have enough income after that.

I've been pretty quiet for me on the DU the last few days. I've been busy with mom. I'll be a little more active today.

OS

Edit: Mom has a small pension from a non-profit religious hospital. It has lost about 75% of it's monthly payout thanks to lack of regulations on Wall St.

[undeterred]

1. On her head or over her head?

:hi:

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Never heard the word entitlements ,until the rich were accused ,and like..

the bailout their willing to share the pain ,but none of the BENEFITS!!!!!

[Not Me]

3. I am happy to pay taxes to ensure that our seniors have a decent

quality of life. It is as American a concept as it gets.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. My Gram broke her hip 2 years ago, because she wouldn't use her walker...

she's now 80% bedridden and needs 24hour care. Please express to your Mom how important that walker is to help with her balance.

This article was very helpful for us, I just wish I had read it before she fell.. we might have been able to prevent it. :(

Falls in the Elderly
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000401/2159.html

[jwirr]

5. I think most of us reach the time when we need more care than our

family can provide. Thank God there are options like the senior housing and assisted living. My mother came to live with me and my disabled daughter whom I was already caring for. She had Alzheimer's and the rest of the family thought I would be able to handle it. Unlike my daughter she was not predictable and it rapidly reached the level where I could not take care of both of them.

If the rethugs have their way we will not have options for our parents when their illnesses reach critical state. Thank you for presenting the issues through the union news like you do. Good luck with your mother.

As to the walker - one of the things that helped me was realizing that a walker is just another tool just like any of our kitchen tools we have used all our lives. This one just is a tool to help us walk.

[InkAddict]

6. Been there; done that

Good luck on beating the greedy Grim Reaper. By policy of the corporate, corpulent rich, he enjoins Congress and will win almost every time nowadays, leaving the sons and daughters to "move forward" with only the HOPE of karmic intervention and CHANGE that will undoubtedly come too late, all things being relative.

We're wired to only understand reason in the moment of our "healthy" neurotransmitters and likewise dismiss the real grimness of living well and long. Charity that began at home changed along the way and became a competitive, capitalistic "missing person" of bad choices (Indeed, who could have imagined....) that fewer and fewer really want to find for charity's sake.