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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 06:10 PM
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8. At 94, my mother lay in a hospital bed, pretty helpless and she was close to death. .
I had been there for several days and one morning I came in and her bed had not been changed. It was obvious that her overnight nurse had neglected her.

I raised holy hell and they cleaned her up immediately. I reported the night nurse.

This drives me nuts...
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  -3 charged in elder abuse case (didn't take mom to hospital, she was uninsured) Omaha Steve  Jan-14-10 05:48 PM   #0 
  - The truth is in there somewhere  pfitz59   Jan-14-10 05:50 PM   #1 
  - Lieberman is a waste of space  rkennedy_68   Mar-31-10 06:58 PM   #23 
  - Medicare?  virgogal   Jan-14-10 05:52 PM   #2 
  - While most of the elderly qualify for Medicare  Coyote_Bandit   Jan-14-10 05:58 PM   #3 
  - You can still get it if you pay a premium. I don't think it would be that much.  Cleita   Jan-14-10 06:05 PM   #5 
  - At her age she was eligible for Medicare Part A, which is hospitalization,  Cleita   Jan-14-10 05:58 PM   #4 
     - She might not have been able to pay $100/month for Part A, or  Downwinder   Jan-14-10 06:08 PM   #7 
        - Part A does not cost $100. You are thinking of Part B. Part A. would have prevented this  CTyankee   Jan-14-10 06:11 PM   #9 
           - Medicare does not cover all longterm care.  JDPriestly   Jan-14-10 07:46 PM   #15 
           - It does cover 100 days of nursing home upon referal from hospital.  quiller4   Jan-14-10 08:24 PM   #19 
           - Whatever. All I know is that $96.60 is withheld from my check each month  Downwinder   Jan-14-10 08:08 PM   #17 
              - The money withheld is for Part B.  Cleita   Jan-15-10 02:41 PM   #21 
  - There may be more to this story,  logosoco   Jan-14-10 06:05 PM   #6 
  - At 94, my mother lay in a hospital bed, pretty helpless and she was close to death. .  CTyankee   Jan-14-10 06:10 PM   #8 
  - You are right. Wouldn't have  emilyg   Jan-14-10 06:42 PM   #10 
  - I suspect they were protecting their inheritance  marshall   Jan-14-10 06:49 PM   #11 
  - That's what it sounds like to me too  bc3000   Jan-14-10 07:41 PM   #14 
  - what 'inheritance' would that be...?  dysfunctional press   Jan-14-10 08:00 PM   #16 
     - Even dirt poor people wipe their bed ridden mother's dirty asses  marshall   Jan-14-10 08:19 PM   #18 
        - most of the 'houses of squalor' that end up on the news aren't exactly in well-to-do neighborhoods.  dysfunctional press   Jan-14-10 10:06 PM   #20 
  - This is bullshit  Warpy   Jan-14-10 06:50 PM   #12 
  - When I worked as an aide, an older woman was admitted  undeterred   Jan-14-10 07:18 PM   #13 
  - devastating stuff  rkennedy_68   Mar-31-10 06:58 PM   #22 
 

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