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What Steps Can We Take To Push To Get Help In The Home,even Thought The Doc Has Ordered It For Us?
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We are at the point of needing help in the home, and when we were at the last doctors appointment (1/6/2016) the said they would put in a request for getting us Social Workers to contact us so they could come out and then tell us what kind of in home care was available to us. I am wondering how do I (we the family) go about checking or pushing them to let them know we need help and we need to get the help started now. Dad is considered a stage 5 and needing help all the time, and his wife is… read more

posted January 17, 2016
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A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

Home health is available for theraoy but to get the help you need, you will have to pay an agency who does personal care and that is around $18-20 an hour. I have someone come in overnight two nights a week do I can sleep. I also have some relief 3-4 hours a day a couple days a week. I tried a long time without it--very stressful!!!'n

posted January 24, 2016
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

Call your local Area Agency on Agency. They can assist you in finding help in the home.

posted January 25, 2016
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

call your local Department of Social Services/DHR. You yourself could do what is called a benefits check for your dad. If you put "Benefits check up" in the Google Search it should come up. After accessing th wbsite it willask you your State.

posted January 18, 2016
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

i ran across this info - check both faith based and local government, local area agency on aging. social worker should be a resource

posted January 18, 2016
A MyParkinsonsTeam Member

I live in Missouri and if you have Medicaid [state ins.] it pays for help.

posted January 31, 2016

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