One Day Notice for 24 hour care assistant while in memory care

charlie bernadette

Greetings,

Yesterday we were informed that my mother was too much a liability for escaping in her facility. We were told she had to be moved to a locked facility and until she was we had to provide 24 care at our expense.  We found a place to move her in four days. In the meantime the 24 care fees are $700 a day, with a week paid in advance and 48 hours cancellation notice.  Is this legal?  

Marta

It would help if you read your contract.

Can family sit with her?

harshedbuzz

That's probably a question for your county's consumer protection department.

When we had a similar situation in our family with my aunt, her sister, daughter and DIL took shifts for the week it took to get the transfer to a SNF. 

HB

Jo C.

I am so sorry for what is happening; I can imagine the stress this is causing.  If family can step in and do the assistant function, that is good.  You also may want to read your contract as Marta advised, and also contact the Ombudsman office in your mother's area.  You can find numbers online . . . :BUT . . . . the facility by law must also provide that Ombudsman number for you.  Wonder what they do if family does not have the funds to do this.

Let us know how this goes.  So hope it turns out alright.

J.

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mommyandme (m&m)

Call a few different private care companies?

RobOT

Ask some of the CNAs if they know a CNA from outside of the facility that will do it hourly.

aod326

Hi. As suggested, worth checking your contract. However, I had the same situation with DH when he first moved to MC and, astonishingly it was perfectly allowable for them to do that. At over $4000/wk, on top of the $8,200/month I was already paying for the MC. I would happily have taken time off work and been his 24-hour aide, but the MC management wouldn't allow it, from a liability point of view. (It is a national chain and I went pretty high up the chain to ask.)

After four weeks of that, I moved him to a different MC - having first checked whether there were any circumstances under which they would require me to supplement with an aide. (There weren't.)

It left a bad taste in my mouth for sure. The second MC turned out to be much more appropriate for his needs though, so it all worked out.

Good luck.