Illness started with pancreatitis, went to liver and kidney failure. He has had multiple really bad infections. In January he was well enough to visit on the phone with our kids and his friends. Then he got another really bad infection. He aspirated and coded on February 2nd. He went back to UAMS early March. He has not really come back to himself since January. He has had several other infections since then also. The problem is that the hospital is trying to move him out to a nursing home. Hospital says he's running out of medicare days. If he goes to a nursing home he's on a limited amount of days. He has saved money over the years so he could leave some money for the kids. He owns a car. That is all he has, but I think he will lose it all. I need help helping my kids navigate through this.
My husband is his mom's POA. My nephew is my mom's POA. It is a couple of months of solid headache at first. They have to work with hospital billing, insurance, medicare, it sounds like medicaid in your case and any utilities he has in his name.
Who is stepping up to care for him at home? It is a 24/7 job. And no one gets paid.
I have found, with both my mother and MIL living, that not all structured care is bad. Most is good and it is a lot easier to keep the patient in the facility, than it is to move them around.
I suppose the hospital has had him sign a living will and the do not resuscitate form. It was good for me to know my mother's wishes, when she had her recent stroke.
Good luck.
Find the Will so the kids can start fighting over it.
Who is his Power of Attorney?
Don't think of it as losing it all. He deserves every cent to be spent on his care.