Alzheimer's Blogging:

MONEY FOLLOWS THE PERSON FROM HOME TO HOME.

This week in Alzheimer's Weekly is an article on a program that gives nursing home residents personal and financial help to live on their own. The program, known as Money Follows the Person, is the nation’s most ambitious effort to move people out of nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities. It aims to help people live on their own and also save tens of millions of dollars for Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor and disabled that pays for two-thirds of nursing home bills in the U.S.

You do not want your loved one to stay in an institution if he or she can be viable at home do you? There are a lot of people who live in nursing homes that don't need to be there. So far only 29 states are participating in Money Follows the Person. I feel bad that my state of Arizona is not involved in the program. Please check out www.alzheimersweekly.com and look up this article: Money Follows The Person From Home to Home.

Sincerely,
Marie Fostino
Alzheimer's A Caretakers Journal
Seaboard Press An Imprint of James A Rock Pub., Co.
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