Comments on: Senate Bill Would Channel Funds to HCBS http://phinational.org/archives/senate-bill-would-channel-funds-to-hcbs/ PHI works to improve long-term care -- by improving the jobs of home health aides, certified nurse aides, & personal care attendants. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:27:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Martha Moyer http://phinational.org/archives/senate-bill-would-channel-funds-to-hcbs/comment-page-1/#comment-3984 Martha Moyer Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:27:58 +0000 http://phinational.org/?p=3925#comment-3984 Would appreciate on ideas about HCBS. Would appreciate on ideas about HCBS.

]]> By: Martha Moyer http://phinational.org/archives/senate-bill-would-channel-funds-to-hcbs/comment-page-1/#comment-3983 Martha Moyer Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:26:14 +0000 http://phinational.org/?p=3925#comment-3983 I wonder if this possibly could apply to older disabled adults such as those with autism and mental retardation? My son is in HCBS now at the age of 36 but there is the tendency to remove them from the community options later on and send them back to institutions or nursing homes. I don't want that to happen to my son. Also, I would like to see this program available for senior citizens with Dementia who need extra care and their loved ones want them to be at home. One senior friend of mine who now has Dementia is now in the hospital due to nursing home abuse. She got to the point where she refused to eat or walk. The nursing home neglected her, causing big bed sores because they wouldn't change the diaper they put on her. She had to be operated on because of gangrene. And, I think they wouldn't change her enough because she got to be fisty and they insisted on her wearing diapers instead of helping her use the bed pan. They said they needed a special crane like devise to lift her. Now they have her so drugged up that her quality of life has left completely. I wonder if this possibly could apply to older disabled adults such as those with autism and mental retardation? My son is in HCBS now at the age of 36 but there is the tendency to remove them from the community options later on and send them back to institutions or nursing homes. I don’t want that to happen to my son.

Also, I would like to see this program available for senior citizens with Dementia who need extra care and their loved ones want them to be at home. One senior friend of mine who now has Dementia is now in the hospital due to nursing home abuse.

She got to the point where she refused to eat or walk. The nursing home neglected her, causing big bed sores because they wouldn’t change the diaper they put on her. She had to be operated on because of gangrene. And, I think they wouldn’t change her enough because she got to be fisty and they insisted on her wearing diapers instead of helping her use the bed pan. They said they needed a special crane like devise to lift her.

Now they have her so drugged up that her quality of life has left completely.

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