In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies

In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies | Chattanooga Times Free Press

New pants to replace Alex Morisey’s tattered khakis will have to wait. There’s no cash left for sugar-free cookies either. Even at the month’s start, the budget is so bare that Fixodent is a luxury. Now, halfway through it, things are so tight that even a Diet Pepsi is a stretch.

In nursing homes, impoverished residents live final days on pennies

A half-century-old bit of American bureaucracy is leaving hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents in an unthinkable bind: Living on as little as $30 a month.

In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies

In a long-term care system that subjects some of society’s frailest to daily indignities, Medicaid’s personal needs allowance is among the most ubiquitous, yet least known.

In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies – Metro Philadelphia

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer New pants to replace Alex Morisey’s tattered khakis will have to wait. There’s no cash left for sugar-free cookies either. Even at the month’s start, the budget is so bare that Fixodent is a luxury. Now, halfway through it, things are so tight that even a Diet Pepsi is a stretch. “How many years do I have left?” asks 82-year-old Morisey, who lives in a Philadelphia nursing home. “I want to live those as well a…

In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies

In a long-term care system that subjects some of society’s frailest to daily indignities, Medicaid’s personal needs allowance is among the most ubiquitous, yet least known.

In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies

In a long-term care system that subjects some of society’s frailest to daily indignities, Medicaid’s personal needs allowance is among the most ubiquitous, yet least known.