BiggerBear

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if we have to pretend like they’re still students

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Students can transfer between fall and spring semesters.

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Generally speaking, Medicaid pays for most NH stays (unless the patient has resources). If she has assets, like home, land, etc., the state CAN (not necessarily will) take those assets to help pay. Get with an estate planning attorney immediately.

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Medicaid is welfare. It only pays if the patient does not have the assets to be able to pay for their care. The Medicaid reimbursement rate in Louisiana is a little over $7,000 per month. Medicaid will allow a patient to retain certain assets like a family home. But it will require the depletion of all other assets toward the payment of the nursing home bills. And, once the resident dies, Medicaid has the right to collect what it has paid out of the patient's estate. It doesn't always do this.

There is a five-year look back period that makes it very dangerous to start making asset transfers for elderly patients who may need Medicaid to pay in the future.

As to nursing homes, take a look at the Nursing Home Compare website that CMS runs and look at its star rating and staff to patient ratios. That isn't a guarantee, but its a good place to start.

Once you pick a nursing home, if it is in Louisiana, put a camera in the patient room that shows interactions with the patient. Let the patient use the call light while you are in the room and time the delay before someone responds. Do this at different times of the day. You have your choice of physician but sometimes the physician that sees most of the residents (typically the Medical Director of the nursing home) is the best choice. Meet with and talk to them and their nurse practitioner and note how responsive they are to the patient's complaints.

Complain about everything that isn't being done properly. Complain when the food is bad. Complaint when it takes 30 minutes to respond to the call light. Complain when CNA's are rude to the patient. Keep a diary of all of this. If the nursing home isn't responsive, complaint to the State LTC Ombudsman's office.

Most nursing homes are going to do a reasonably good job of taking care of the patient, but being a squeaky wheel will help you family member get taken care of.

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My dad is 82

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Make sure to get him one that isn't too heavy.

I remember when this happened. She had attended a multi-day event on Friday and met and talked to my sister. My sister was going to introduce us on Saturday. I obviously never met her, but remember it mostly for that reason. I don't remember hearing about the escape.

No. You still have to figure out the connection. And, isn't learning new words part of word games?

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Lay off the Tylenol.

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And circumcisions.

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The percentage of Americans who have taken an IQ test is probably less than 1 percent.

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How did you calculate this probability?
Why less than 1%?
What size sample is necessary to be statistically valid?

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a group from Europe that found drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak a foreign language

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I can confirm this.

Mostly consisting of more mini excavators than you can shake a stick at and skid steer attachments. A few guns on pag 8 and another rifle on one of the earlier pages.

LINK to auction catalog

Maybe consider adding a front hitch and PTO along with the mulcher?

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Women are currently dominating the academic realm. There are more women in college than men and girls are outperforming boys prior to college.

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Welcome to 1980.

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You've said this a couple of times, but have yet to define what you mean by it.

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Now I have identified the problem. You haven't been reading my responses. I get that you want to fanboy your favorite format, but I have specifically stated what I am talking about when I talk about increased resolution. Enjoy.

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Most people make recommendations based upon what they already shoot with because they are familiar with it and it works for them.

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I've owned and used full frame, APS-C, medium format, M43 and 1" sensor cameras. When I got into bird photography, I purchased my first M43 camera and eventually sold all my other cameras and lenses because I just wasn't using them. I don't find noise or low light to be much of an issue, just a compromise to work around. And I've never had any issue with sharpness being limited by diffraction. My decision to get an M43 camera was largely based on resolution, a factor that still applies. None of the rest has given me anything to worry about.

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Lately I have been fascinated by the concept of spaces

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Wait until you hear about apartment complexes and hotel rooms . . .

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But for wildlife photography m4/3 cameras are less than ideal. This is because their smaller sensors, while the 2x crop factor that give you more reach with lenses, they also come with a smaller pixel pitch. Pixel pitch is basically the size of each individual photosite on the sensor, or a smaller the area to gather light. These smaller photosites leads to reduced sharpness (due to diffraction effects appearing sooner), less dynamic range and higher noise at high ISO. That's why I said for wildlife (and sport) shooting, mirrorless APS-C cameras are the sweet spot between price, size, crop factor (at 1.5) and image quality.

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It's a typical knock from people who don't use them. Diffraction starts to become apparent around f/8-f/11. In most circumstances, you shoot wildlife with wide open apertures where pixel pitch (or pixel density) leads to higer resolution which is especially helpful in bird photography and distant subjects. That's because you are putting more pixels on the small subject at the same focal length than with a full frame camera. Additionally, where the M43 size benefit really shines is in lenses now that full frame and APS-C bodies have become more compact in mirrorless models. So, not only is an M43 50-200 lens tack sharp, it is also smaller than a 50-200 mm lens in larger formats and gives you a narrower field of view, comparable to 100-400mm in full-frame.