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raffcons · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 707 Location: CA

Only found out once Jerome was here at the hospice center that Medicare will cover up to a five-day stay for your LO at a hospice center for respite services. Never knew that or I might have taken advantage, especially after experiencing this particular hospice center. So if your LO has Medicare, be aware that you have this option.
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Renata (and Jerome)

robin · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:46 am Post subject:

And I think you can get this 5-day respite care benefit every 6 months.

Dianne C. · Joined: 08 Oct 2008 Posts: 856 Location: Henderson, Nv.

And VA can give you one week of respite care every 90 days
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Dianne C.

judy73 · Joined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 37

We have VA respite care choices of 6 hrs. a day 30 days a year or two weeks a year. My question is when we use hospice, which I haven't called about yet, is that care in addition to VA care or are you pretty much under hospice only? Or again does that vary from state to state? We are in Texas.
Judy

dorthea · Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 369 Location: LA

I was told I could have Hospice [when we are ready] and it will have nothing to do with the VA services of aid and attendance. That's what I was told by the young man who first came to sign us up. However, I am finding out that VA services are as different all over the country as Lewy Body itself!

DrP

Dianne C. · Joined: 08 Oct 2008 Posts: 856 Location: Henderson, Nv.

So true! We had VA home services in addition to hospice. They actually co-ordinated their schedules so we had someone here everyday ...except weekends, the final few weeks. So even though those visits were short as were hospices, at least we had a professional checking on my hubby daily.
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Dianne C.

latebloom · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 9 Location: Sonoma, Ca

robin · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:56 am Post subject:

Right, it's a Medicare hospice benefit.

vicki in north carolina · Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 24

does the patient have to be "immoble"? i tried to get hospice for my husband and they said he was not elligible because he was still mobile.
that's the reason i need some help! he's too mobile at night and won't sleep...therefore i don't sleep. thanks
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Vicki in North Carolina

robin · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:07 am Post subject:

No, plenty of people that are still walking are accepted into hospice.

You might try a different hospice organization.

Your husband's mobility could be a proxy for the fact that he hasn't declined enough to warrant hospice's help.