In general, the Medicaid rate for nursing home care is intended to include all necessary services, including wheelchairs. Exceptions may be made for persons who need customized and/or motorized chairs.
Different states offer different forms of medicaid. Depending on the state it will determing if the assisted living is covered by your medicaid.
Medicaid will examine any and all transfers of assets that occurred within 60 months prior to entry into a nursing home to determine whether the client received fair market value for the transfer. (For Medicaid clients living in the community, transfers do not affect eligibility.)
Incontinence products are not covered by health insurance or Medicare. If the person is living in a nursing home then they are covered by Medicaid. Also check with your long term care policy as they might cover them.
Medicaid
It depends on how the trust is drafted. A properly drafted irrevocable trust, in Florida, will be invisible to Medicaid (Medicare doesn't factor assets into whether or not one is qualified the way Medicaid does). However, transfers of assets into the trust must be done 5 years before applying to medicaid or medicaid will assess a transfer penalty (this is referred to as the "five year lookback"). The transfer penalty is a period of ineligibility for certain medicaid benefits depending on the size of the transfer. As a result, irrevocable trust planning would not be appropriate for all Medicaid planning scenarios.
If the teen is not living with her parents, she and the child should be able to qualify on her own. If they are living with her parents, Medicaid will probably look at the entire family's income and resources.
When the recipient, the spouse of a recipient who is in a nursing home, and/or the recipient's disabled adult child, is living there. However, even in such cases, the State will file a lien on the property and an estate claim to recover the cost of care.
If you are "permanently and totally disabled" as defined by Social Security and living in your parent's home, your parent can probably transfer the home to you without penalty.
The only way to answer that is by calling Medicaid and asking them if you qualify.
Medicaid and Medicare are public programs that fund assisted living for low income adults. Try calling a local assisted living center. If they accept medicaid/medicare they will be able to help you enroll, if they do not accept medicaid/medicare ask them to refer you to facility that accepts medicaid/medicare. HERITAGE COURT ASSISTED LIVING (909-949-4887) is an assisted living center in your area.
Medicaid will not take the home. However (assuming no relatives still living there), they will likely require that it be sold and the proceeds used for medical care or other legitimate expenses. Also, Medicaid will file an estate claim to recover the cost of medical care.
If you gift a home to someone and then apply for Medicaid nursing home benefits, it may be considered a transfer of assets for less than fair market value. This could result in a penalty period where you are not eligible for Medicaid benefits for a certain period of time. The length of the penalty period will depend on the value of the gift and the average monthly cost of nursing home care in your state. It is important to consult with an elder law attorney or Medicaid planning professional before making any gift or asset transfers.