Current Medicaid rules allow for the confiscation of homes from family caregivers when an Alzheimer's patient has to be institutionalized in a nursing home. This creates chaos for the family caregiver who could be potentially homeless after their loved ones are placed in a nursing home.
Why is this important?
Family caregivers make the ultimate sacrifice in caring for loved ones. After years of caregiving, should they be thrown out in the street? Especially, older family caregivers approaching retirement or in retirement? Does it make sense to put caregivers in a Section 8 housing program, or to allow them to stay in the family home? Caregivers save the government billions of dollars a year in Medicaid costs. Do they deserve the punishment that Medicaid offers? This doesn't happen in Canada or other parts of the industrialized world. It only happens here, in America. It's time to stop this horrible Medicaid practice.
