Re: Residential and Home care service

[Mike]

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Our Medicare (socialized medicine in US for all over 65) pays for a bedside commode, and that is about all for bathroom stuff.  Medicaid ( which is means tested and some elderly people get both Medicare and Medicaid ) will pay for a shower seat, but I can't get the good rubbermaid kind, only the metal leg kind, and I hate those, so I don't use it.  I can get a bathboard through medicaid and I do use those sometimes.  I either ask the clients to pay for the equipment if I think they can, or I pay for it myself, or I have been able to get a lot of equipment paid for by the arthritis foundation.  I have to have a formed signed by MD specifiying what type of arthritis, but it does not have to be the primary diagnosis. -- Jody

That sounds very restrictive. What about adaptations, though? Who pays for stair lifts, ramps, level access showers for wheelchair users and so on? ******************** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's body, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist ------ OTnow messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/list@otnow.com (and) http://www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com ********rC***********