If the patient is a veteran of the military and being seen at a VA hospital,
we can provide bath and other equipment. We can also do home modifications
within some limitations using a special grant. It is really nice to be able
to do what needs to be done without worrying too much about finding funding
sources!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Residential and Home care service
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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?
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