My dad and I were taking care of my mother for years,
when do to her mood swings and us never being home
because we both needed to work, we had to put her in a
home. We actually had an ambulance pick her up one
night when she fell, and we refused to take her home.
In our area of PA, the hospital was forced to find a
nursing home for her. We were lucky though, because
my sis-in-law's father was in a good nursing home, and
we were able to put her there.

My mom is the only HD patient at that home. But the
staff has been really great about doing research and
finding the best way to help her. The HDSA sends out
a social worker once a year or so to see how she's
doing and to update the staff.

Is there any possibility that you can get in-home care
with medicare/medicaid?

--- carebear22_00 <carebear22_00@...> wrote:

> Hey everyone-I have not been on here for a very long
> time. Right now
> I am trying to find a nursing home for my mom. I
> live in Denver and i
> would think there would be alot of options here. I
> am not finding
> very much that accepts medicare/medicaid and that is
> a decent place.
> I dont want to put my mom somewhere dirty or gross.
> has anyone else
> gone through this as well?
> I have been looking for about a month and i cant
> believe how
> difficult this is. All the phone calls, driving
> around and hours of
> research online.
> Alot of people have not even heard of this disease
> and if they have
> they have never had the expierence with a patient. I
> feel i have
> exhausted all my options. I dont know what to do.
> Where do people
> with HD live?
>
> Colleen

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