Does anyone know of any non-related caregiver financial program?

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Care is ordered by an MD and paid for via insurance, Medicaid or VA.

I see your question as, you are a care giver and you are NOT related to this person and is there any financial assistance to help with your out of pocket cost, time and labor... I have the same issue, my neighbor, 93 years old with 2 pretty well off daughters and a huge family who all live in other states and somehow the care has fallen on me from what had started out as being friends and neighbors. Over 10 years now, his health and mentality has declined, his daughter has the POA and nothing I can really do anymore especially when I am told I am not family. He constantly reminds me that I get nothing of his old trailer home and property of where he lives alone as everything goes to his daughters. OK, I understand that, they were also supposed to pay me as per agreement, LOL I get "Oh thank you..." I even stopped going for awhile to check in on him and expressed his urgent need for medical, but they never came for him. Emotions get the best of me and I go and catch up on chores and cleaning, trash and stuff, it is hard, but I guess in the end, it is the right thing to do, paid or not, I can feel good about knowing I am at least a descent person if I have the compassion and or mercy even though... You hang in there and harden not your heart for no good deed goes without reward... eventually anyway...

bigmamma I have heard of some people that sign up with a home care agency and tell the agency who they want hired to do the care. Seems you will be well looked over by the social worker(s ) though. There is a program called Global Options . The client should ask the agency about applying. Global Options pays the expenses for care and allows the client to choose their desired caregiver.

pamstegman if you have a written agreement about being paid, you can sue for what is owed you. Get legal counsel.

ohdear, the only Global Options I could find in Georgia was a group of insurance fraud investigators. Not who you mean?

Plus you need to not be involved with your
neighbors care. If something happens to him you could be held accountable as you sought no medical help for him. You abandoned him after not being paid. You noticed him going downhill but sought no medical intervention. Me I would be calling 911 . He needs care and you need a paper trail. That family will come out the woodwork if something happens to him. They will save their necks and say he was left in your care. Bad news for you is they have it in writting.
This is a disclaimer for giving you legal or medical advice.
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The only time I see family come out of the woodwork is when it is time to read the Will. LOL

No pamstegman that is not the Global Options I meant. Perhaps in your area it has a different name. That is why you work with the homecare agency as they know all the various programs that are out there.

Not funny. Some places have regulations that if a person dies at home an autopsy is done.Lets say he falls and is found in the deplorable conditions you describe. Guardian charged with all sorts of things. Points a finger at you. " I have a contract here. She was suppose to take care of my Father." She goes free , you get an orange jumpsuit and a girl named "Butch" for a cellmate.

Again legal disclaimer. If you assume care for a person than leaving them is called abandonment. If you want to stop taking care of a person for any reason than you must arrange to transfer that care to someone else . If that person becomes sicker on your time and you take no action then that is a other offense. Should they die from preventable causes , fall or injury then you are probably going to face some kind of murder charge. Human being found alive or dead in deplorable conditions another charge. They will throw the book at you for elder abuse of any kind.