Medicaid Dilemma

This article www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/45169 is a blatant reminder that we all need to have our voices heard on healthcare reform. Home health care agencies not accepting Medicaid patients seems like discrimination to me. As close as this family appears, everyone needs respite and professional support in caring for a loved one.

What of elders who want to remain in their homes and qualify for Medicaid? What of those elders who have managed to live in senior communities with the help of their children until constant price increases made that impossible and now need to live with a family member in their mid-90s?

One of the chapter contributors for a gerontology text I am co-authoring had to step down from her obligation. As a leader in the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers this business owner and professional care manager is adding to the voices of healthcare reform. What are the challenges you are witnessing in your family, your community?