Options Available to Help Care For the Elderly
Sunday, February 27th, 2005.
Officials are still investigating an elder-abuse incident which resulted in an elderly woman being removed from a Magna home; Magna, Utah is a part of the Salt Lake City metro area with some 22,000 residents. Emergency crews responding to a call to help a stroke victim found the woman immobile, laying in a chair saturated with her own urine and feces. Unable to move, the elderly woman was suffering from open wounds on her legs that had become infected. The woman’s daughter and son-in-law own the house; their four children were voluntarily removed from the home and placed with relatives. Officials said they were not going to condemn the property, but were requiring the owners to clean the residence within a specified time frame. Some 2400 cases of suspected elder abuse and neglect were investigated in Utah last year. Elderly advocates stress that caregivers need to seek assistance in order to prevent such cases of abuse and neglect.
From the article
Experts say, there is care available even those who cannot afford to pay for it…. if people seek it.
Nancy Stallings, M.A.M./S.L. County Aging Services: “Medicaid is available to help low-income, frail, elderly people who need long-term care. And before they get to long-term care, here at aging services we have some programs to provide in home care to reduce that premature nursing home placement.”
Every county in the state has a division of aging, that will provide help and referral services for the elderly and their caregivers, so this kind of apparent neglect… doesn’t happen again.
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