Possible location change

Mom appreciates, and has thoroughly enjoyed the visits from family and friends she’s had over the past couple of weeks, but if you are planning to visit her this week, you should check with the hospital to make sure she is still there as we are working on a location change.

Mom’s patient status has changed from acute care to alternate care.  This means that she no longer requires the monitoring of a hospital setting, but cannot cope independently.  The options available are: retirement home, nursing home, palliative care, and home support.  At this point, mom’s condition is not suitable for either a retirement home or palliative care so that leaves us with nursing home or home support.  

While mom is somewhat apprehensive about the level of support she will get at home, that is the option we are working towards as long as we can get the assistance needed.  We may be able to get eight hours of support per day which would cover when Michele and I are at work; once we are home we would take over for the remainder of the time.  If mom’s condition qualifies, this type of support is available only on an interim basis and diminishes to 15 hours per week by the end of 60 days.  That is the immediate plan and will hopefully be in place later this week.  Since we will be done school about the same time the support drops off, we should be able to keep mom at home for the summer at least.