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My brother is in a nursing home now, their facility cases of Covid 19 have been on the rise in the past week. Is there an option to bring him to my house until the numbers go down and how can I get home healthcare for him? He needs 24/7 care.

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Homecare resources are currently tapped out. Once anyone is discharged from anywhere a 10-14 self quarantine is prob required these days. That may affect you and your family in exposing them to possible Covid when he is at your home.
I would leave him where he is unless you can pre-arrange & find resources for you to pay for all his care needs at your home (His insurance). Case managers are overwhelmed finding placement for those being DC’d from acute care facilities.
It is a blooming mess out there & now the US again has many new hotspots.
We’ll all be wearing masks for the next 6 months, I’ll bet.
Its not feasible to take him home without help.
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kelligirl87 Jul 2020
Thank you Shane I appreciate your response.
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Thank you so much. Yes he is on medicaid, and I don't want to create a monster by taking him out of the facility (which he wants soooo badly) He is only 52 yrs and quadraplegic. My mother use to care for him before her untimely death and I had not way to care for him. I talked with the facility administrator and I feel better about the precautions they are taking but if the numbers continue to rise I will have to make a decision. Thank you again.
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worriedinCali Jul 2020
Well before you make a decision you need to find out if bringing him home is even possible. WHO do you expect to pay for 24/7 homecare? Medicaid isn’t going to pay for that. So unless you are wealthy and can afford to pay for his care, if you bring him home YOU will be providing most of his care.
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Tell brother that if you bring him home, and YOU get sick, you would both be up a creek.

He is actually safer where he is, and I sense a hesitation in you to bring him home as he sounds like a 24/7 care.

COVID is going nowhere for the forseeable future. Only a drug to cure it or a vaccine is going to be bringing us back to the new normal.

Don't look at the 'numbers' so much, they do not tell the whole story. Look at the overall mortality rate which has a smaller proportion of deaths than COVID does. And nobody is talking about that very real number.

Even WITH a vaccine, 40% of the population will get the vaccine, so we've got COVID forever.
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kelligirl87 Jul 2020
Thank you Midkid58
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Two problems.  1.  Difficult to get home health care aids with the extra unemployment of 600.  No one unemployed will consider taking home health care jobs.  But call agencies.   2.  If you take him out, you risk finding a spot if you want to put him back
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