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My mother’s MC didn’t ask us to sign anything. Nor would we have signed, if they did.
I placed anything financial that needed to be signed in front of my mom to sign. Otherwise, big brother POA signed "Joe Blow, in his capacity as POA for Jane Blow".
We were totally transparent with the discharge planners at the hospital and with the NH about how much money mom had.
Just moved my step-mother, saved $1,800 a month, adds a few years to pay for her home.
Harsh but that is the reality of the situation. She could live a very long time, trust me on this my mother is 97.
If you give your money to MC that is thousands and thousands a month. What will happen when you are older and need your own savings.
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
If they wish to know the assets then let them know. As my bro and I said to the facility "You are looking at about a million on the hoof". They can ask the elder leave or be moved when the money has run dry, but they cannot/should not ask others to pay. So ABSOLUTELY not, and this is nothing I have ever heard of. Your Mom's assets hold to take care of her while they last. At that point she would need to apply for medicaid.
NO to cosigning. Full stop, period and end of sentence.
Will this facility accept Medicaid when mom runs out of money? Most eldercare attorneys or Medicaid planners can give you a good timeliness of when to apply ( like, when their down to three month's worth of funds).
BUT you have to make sure that this facility is one that will accept Medicaid when the time comes. Otherwise you are going to need to move her to a NH when she's out of funds.
I would never sign something that made me financially responsible for an elder's care costs.