What happens to Alzheimer’s patients with no one to care for them and not very much money?
Do they go to state hospitals? How bad are state hospitals?
Would they be able to provide better care than a low quality old person’s home? That’s all we’d realistically be able to provide. Thanks!
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well its most likely an option they could go to a hospital. but if the place is low quality your better off finding a better place. you dont want to place them in a terrible or abusive home then theyre bound to reallly get depressed.
Medicare would pay for a nursing home, but unfortunately, most all nursing homes are just hell with a fresh coat of paint.
I know this because my mother spent some time in a few nursing/rehab homes after shoulder surgery. They suck beyond belief…. Either myself or my Dad were there during the day, every day, to monitor the idiots they hire to work there, but at night she was by herself. She would call for someone to help her to the bathroom and would have to wait up to 30 minutes or more.
Two out of the three nursing homes she was in, her shoulder was re-dislocated due to the CNA’s not following the surgeon’s orders on handling my mother’s arm. Which resulted in two additional surgeries to fix her shoulder again.
The rule of thumb that I learned was all the good, caring, competent nurses go to the major hospitals to work, and all the flunkies end up as CNA’s in nursing homes….
So, to answer your question, I have no experience with State Hospitals, but they can’t be any worse than some of the better nursing homes. Like I said, they’re like hell with a fresh coat of paint.
Good Luck