Generally it works this way: your doctor puts an order in for a commode, wheelchair, or hospital bed. We contact a vendor for delivery. Insurance pays for it 100{d0e74b8a3596e4326b45924d39792f257a1f9983beed4201831d386befd3d18e}. Even Medicare.

If you lose your wheelchair, you are out of luck for any sort of reimbursement from insurance or…[Read more]

While searching for assisted living facility, it is important to find out as much as you can on the entire range of services they offer, including sedentary activities, such as watching TV, listening to music. Ask whether staff or other residents participate in building a puzzle or playing a card game. I have heard one site giving its residents…[Read more]

Pre-admission docs, questionnaire, and physician reports are the primary go-to reports we look at to get a feel of a potential resident. If the individual is in a SNIF, we talk to the nurses; how is his or her eating behavior; how ambulatory are they; what medicines are logged on their chart. We will talk with a staff nurse about their mental…[Read more]

ARF is an abbreviation for adult residential facility. It is yet another type of housing option – among the many –for 18—59 mentally, development, or disabled individuals who need 24-hour non-medical care.

99.5{d0e74b8a3596e4326b45924d39792f257a1f9983beed4201831d386befd3d18e} of the time it is private pay. That means a check.

On top of the basic services costs, you might also want to find out just how much the extra services are going to cost, such as laundry, money management, shopping, making the bed. Those services and associate fees are…[Read more]

“There are several avenues you can pursue:
a) “A Must”: tour the facilities: one a scheduled visit, the other impromptu
b) Call an ombudsman and request access to reports on the facility that interests you. For example, in California, the community care licensing division with the Department of Social Services maintains a public rep…[Read more]