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To: LindyBill who wrote (354790)3/23/2010 5:58:14 AM
From: Zakrosian  Read Replies (1) of 793908
 
Obviously, A nursing home owner, for profit or non, has an incentive to minimize costs by keeping labor at a minimum. I doubt they set out to run the snake pits we hear described.

Not all dementia patients need a nursing home; assisted living is perfectly fine for them. Problem is that assisted living expenses are often higher than the pension/social security payments many of the residents receive.

So when they've depleted their assets, they're moved to a more expensive nursing home, which is covered by Medicaid. There must be some rationale for that, but it seems odd that the government would pay $75K a year for a patient in a nursing home instead of $40K a year for a resident in an assisted living facility.
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