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An excellent resource for your reader would be www.medicare.com/assisted-living and an alternative to the assisted living may be for him to stay at home. The great resource for this would be https://www.agingcare.com/Home-Care
If your Dad is a Veteran, he may be eligible for the Aid-and-Assistance Program sponsored by the Department of Veteran's Affairs. Those hoping to qualify can seek out free help through a regional, state or county-level Veterans office or go to www.va.gov. Then click on locations and then click on State Veteran Affairs offices or Regional Benefit offices. You can also email the Department of Veterans Affairs at www.iris.va.gov or call them at 1-877-294-6380.
So try to find out costs.
If he is short to pay AL, your options are in my experience:
- you or other family pay in the difference & pay this $ directly to AL ( not putting it in dads acct). If you go this route please please do not overextend yourself financially.
- dad gets a medicaid waiver to pay for AL. Waivers can be sticky as not all states do them; not all AL take them; and dad will have to qualify & apply for Medicaid. What waivers are is a diversion of federal $ that a state is given for skilled nursing care payment in a facility (a NH) that the Tate can choose to divert to pay for community based programs (like PACE, AL, in home services).
Or did you mean how do you convince him to make this move?