Medicaid Law; Making it Hard for Men to Enter a Nursing Home

Recent studies prove that it is a lot harder for a man to find a bed in a nursing home than it is for a woman because of Medicaid law. Most people just don’t think about problems like this coming up when Medicaid Planning.

Nursing Home Population; Elder Law Attorney’s Cohen and Oalican, LLC.

Like the elderly population itself, nursing home residents are mostly female. An Elder Law report in 2010 stated that two-thirds of nursing home residents are women. The problem with that for men is: Medicaid will ONLY cover semiprivate rooms in a nursing home, so since a man can’t bunk with a woman, men are forced to wait for a bed to open up in another man’s room.

Family’s Search for Other Nursing Home Options

These numbers are definitely something you can’t dispute, but they definitely make an already hard process even more difficult. Someone who is leaving from their own home can probably wait for a bed, but what about somebody who’s leaving a hospital or a rehab? You then might have to settle for a place far away from the family or something not as nice as you’d prefer.

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