My mom is moving to a retirement community that is like a an apartment complex combined with a country club plus a skilled nursing facility. The Executive chef previously was in charge of food service on cruise ships and appeared on more than 100 episodes of Martha Stewart.
Paleoconservative, all
Your stories echo what happened to my mom. She fell and got a subdural hematoma. She aspirated somthing because the fall affected her swallowing. She had other conditions (kidney and lung) that got aggravated by the injury. The doctors pressured me to put her into the subacute wing of the hospital in spite of one of the conditions requiring hospitalization ( subacute is not a nursing home, its the stage in between ) I had POA and pushed back, but to no avail. She had COPD that got worse... they then pushed her out from subacute into a nursing home. They couldn’t find a home that had enough percent oxygen so they ended up hooking TWO oxygen concentrators together in order to give enough air to her.
She died a week after going into the nursing home.
That was ten year’s ago......I am still angry about it. The subacute facility had the nerve to have a big display showing a young lady that had had a similar injury and the facility had given her hyperbaric treatments which cured her.
The bottom line is pricing. How much will that set her back, and take into account Medicare and insurance, both of which may be drying up soon.
It may not be a bad idea that, assuming the worst, which in this case is increasingly likely, that you all have a ‘plan B’ and a ‘plan C’.