Every day at Encore Community Services in Midtown Manhattan, I meet older New Yorkers who worked their whole lives and now face an impossible choice. They can drain their savings to pay for home care, or try to live without the help they need to stay safe at home. Medicaid, the public insurance program for people with very low incomes, will pay for long-term home care.
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I can't blame them for burning out or seeking new challenges. But it's not easy to bring a new practitioner up to speed when you have a long, complicated medical, dental, social, economic, and cognitive history after brain injury. Educating and learning a new person's facial expressions and body language suck you dry. Losing trusted support over and over leads to separation anxiety and diminished capacity to trust.
"I live with my parents," Downes told Truthout, "because, even with my diagnosis, the state only authorizes care for 35 hours a week. It's shameful since I need 24-hour assistance. Right now, my 62-year-old mother is the only person on my payroll. She makes $19.80 an hour and has to rely on my father's employer health plan because the job does not provide benefits."
Waiting lists for home care for older people and people with a disability are highest in the west and north-west counties - with 1,334 in a queue for the service in this region as figures show an ongoing postcode lottery.
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