Nursing home

We had to put my 100 year old mom in a nursing home this afternoon. She had fallen in her home and layd on the floor for 24-36 hours. I found her and got the ambulance called. They got her to the hospital. She could only spend 4 days in the hospital
     Guys if you are going to have to do this, get your paperwork together. We were ok. We had to have a power of attorney, medical power of attorney, yes there is a difference. You need a piece of paper stating she does not want to be recessited. Mom made it plain to us she does not want that. Some homes want that in writing and signed by the patient. Anyway, it was a sad long trip for mom today.
Medicare will pay everything except her Depends, clothes, etc. The gals promised her all the black coffee she can drink, all the Cheerios and chicken she can eat. I hope you folks never have to do this. I might have to take an extra sleeping pill tonight.

Sorry to hear this- but Ill be going thru the same thing in the near future, Mom went out to pull weeds, fell broke her nose , got bruised up- Dad went to help, fell too both were laying there in the yard- was wondering about the nursing home process

So Sorry to hear Tom, prayers she is well attended.  As to those POA and MPOA, what happened with my Dad was these HAD to be renewed each time entered a Med Office or after a year, just insane all the damn paper had to continually reprocess.

Prayers for you and your mother and family. My mother is 96 and is in a resthome and has been the for a few years. Hope they treat her as good as the one my mother is in,

Prayers for a speedy recovery and great care! God Bless!

Mom seems to be very happy there. No cooking, no cleaning, which she found vary hard to do. You are right, medicare pays for 65 days. After that it's $3000.00 per month for her care. She is about 13 miles one way from my house, instead of the 65 miles one way that she was. I'm not a talker, but we'll figure out how to communicate about something.
      I've got 500+ bottles of flavored honey to deliver to a store in Valley Junction. I emptied a 55 gallon barrel of honey tonight so it looks like I'll be in the honey shed all day tomorrow blending flavoring into honey. It's a boring job, good thing I don't drink beer, etc.

been there too Tom, I feel for you and the family....it's tough. I think about this sometimes if/when it comes to me or the old lady......oooooops.....I mean the loving wife, how we'd feel.  

I don't like saying this....but usually those places keep the residents drugged up some so the family will keep them in the home. I know a few people that were put in them to re-cooperate from something they had and couldn't stay in the hospital, they ended up dying there, if the residents go home, they don't make any money. guess that's why there are so many lawsuits against them right now. oh...all the homes are not like that, but alot of them are. I pray your Mom will level out and be able to live longer! we have been thru this