Can the nursing home kick my Dad out if he is not doing his physical therapy?

When my mother-in-law was in the nursing home for rehab because of a broken hip, it was her INSURANCE that decided when she had to leave. When the patient stops progressing either because the therapy has done as much as it could, OR the patient just wouldn't do the work for whatever reason.

so what happens if the insurance feels that my Dad isnt make enough progress in a nursing home? Where does he go from there?

Health insurance, including Medicare, will pay for rehabilitation, but not for LTC. The NH will need to discharge him to the usual places -- home, AL, or some other place of your choosing. Do you have an LTC or AL option in place for him?

If Medicare doesnt think they are making progress or unwilling to rehab, they will dismiss them. If they do rehab and reach their peak plateau they will then release them.

I believe the little town that my parents live in has a waiting list for their Long Term Care. As I am experiencing this w/ my family I am finding out that this is a pretty harsh system and very sad. Why dont we just put old people down like sick animals?

I wish the US was more like Norway, a country that believes all people are equal and worthy of the same treatment without regard to age, gender, or race. I look at how things are structured -- low cost daycare for children, free schools, financial assistance for college, etc. And the old people? Not our problem, says the same society that supports children so well. And I wonder at what age do people cease to merit consideration and respect. This country needs to grow up IMO.

My writing was confusing. I meant the USA has the low cost daycare and other things for children, but very little for old people.

It is a shame on how our county , looks a pond elderly , my Mom is 80 and all I can do is watch her die, she has all her wits about her , she wants to live , My Mom lives with my younger sister who works 50 hours a week , The family does not have resources to have a full time sitter , I am beside my self , The women went to the hospital on 4/15/12 for infected toe , they keep her for approx 3 wks went to rehab where she sustain a wound on her opposite foot and a bout of VRE infection ,back to the big hospital, there they treated VRE and sent her home with it, primary doc sets up home care and about 25 different med less than 2 wks she rush back to big hospital with loss of blood , they give blood, gonna send her back home next day, but she had existing wound on her good foot , she was week from blood loss, they had order a low bed , the bed was to arrive that afternoon, well 1am on release day my mom had to go to the bathroom and no one came she got out of bed and fell and broke her hip, after she broke her hip , the new low bed arrives , My mom is in intensive care her status as far as i am concern is critical she is still losing blood , the hospital is making plans on sending her home and to a regular room .The hospital in the state of Florida has a licence to kill !! they cannot be held accountable , get this , Because the children cannot sue ,spouse only :(

jeanie, what a mess! I understand completely. When my father was admitted to the hospital from ER, they immediately asked where we wanted to discharge him. The man was dying and had just gotten there. He lived three more days, which I spent looking at SNFs. I finally decided on Hospice. We were going to take him home. He died right before Hospice arrived and didn't make it home.

And I wondered why the hospital was so intent on getting a dying man out the door. They knew he would soon be dead. We knew it. So why didn't they just leave us alone instead of going through that silly game with us.

I believe it's political. Don't keep them alive because they are draining SS.
Never mind that they paid in for years while we have illegals, welfare am
Nd those that "take" from taxpayers.
What happened to honor your elders?
The times I have had to take mom to ER they check her over and say " well, at her age she is going to have these "chinks" in her armor". And send her home. Even with a UTI. Thank God I have a prescription foe meds. Bt I think she may need a different kind oe IV antibiotics. They don't care. She is 93 and MY mom and I love her and want to keep her.