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(Thanks, igloo!)
Number of Medicaid recipients:
73,800,000 million
Of this 43% are children and 10,600,000 are individuals with disabilities.
So, doing the math - that leaves roughly 31,500,000 individuals assumed to be the elderly.
So - just for fun, let’s reduce that by half - assuming not everyone of these elderly needs in home care. 16,000,000.
Now, let’s just say we’re gonna provide these 16 million individuals with in-home care for just four hours a day - to be used for bedtime or showering or meal prep, medication - whatever.
Im picking four hours as I don’t think you’d get many employees willing to or needing to work less than that per shift. And - I’m gonna pay them $15 an hour, although that’s probably a bit low...
$960,000,000.00. That’s Nine hundred and 60 million dollars - A Day.
So - for simplicity, let’s just call it -
One Billion dollars - A Day!
Even if you only gave each one of these 16 million seniors one hour - and you could find a employee willing to put a senior to bed, hop in their car, drive to another senior - put them to bed... lather, rinse, repeat - we’re talking $240,000,000 - that’s Two hundred and forty million dollars a day.
Clearly - my numbers are very, very generalized. But I do think it gives an answer to your question, regardless.
EDIT: It does bring the question to mind - how does this off set the cost of having these 16 million seniors in a nursing home. Although- it’s safe to assume some would be in other settings like Assisted Living as well as still living alone or with relatives. Not all would qualify for NH level of care. Still - I don’t know the answer to that one. But one has to assume that caring in bulk is more cost effective- not to mention the government takes back the seniors entire social security check. Would an in-home senior be willing and/or able to forfeit their check for a minimal amount of government in-home provided care. Would the relative caring for them be able to provide the balance of that care with no SS check from the senior care recipient to help with expenses? All interesting and complicated questions. With no helpful answers from our government- at this time, at least.
Why does Mom need to be put to bed "correctly". Why on time? If there is a directive from the doctor than that should be followed. Have you talked to the director of Nursing. Have her explain the procedures and then voice ur concerns.
I see your frustration when it comes to the aides. Like people in general, everyone has there own way of doing things to get the job done. Aides have a number of patients each. They all have to be gotten ready for bed.