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1. Medicaid Law; Making it
Hard for Men to Enter a
Nursing Home
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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4. 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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5. Attorneys Cohen &
Oalican specialize in Elder
Law; where protecting
your assets and your
dignity is their core
mission.
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