Right now! Yes, right now. Follow these simple steps to protect your interest. I will write another article to this later this month.
Here are the main ways to protect yourself and protect your interests:
- Always know where your glasses are and where your hearing aid is located (if you use them). There are always additional pairs of glasses in several places just in case you need them. (You can buy points in dollar stores if you cannot afford additional services).
- When signing documents, try another unselfish or neutral person to help you or read the document to you, just in case the documents are not good for you, if you have someone else, you are more protected.
- Do not forget to trust your inner instinct, your gut instinct when it comes to important things, and also when it comes to ordinary things.
- If you come to the Rehabilitation and Care Center, make sure that all your legal documents are completed before you get there. There are some unscrupulous objects that will try to use you in a vulnerable state. Thus, do not sign any documents inside these objects unless family members are present or your own attorney is not. (Do not accept a single lawyer or legal representative who will provide you with any rehabilitation and assistance center, as these people are not neutral and they are not looking for your interests). If you sign all documents, have your own attorney or family members.
- One of the other frauds or actions that some physical rehabilitation centers and help centers do are actions that allow tenants to acquire bedsores - this gives patients more reason to be treated in the long term at their facilities. If the resident is in a facility for short-term care, sometimes unprincipled management of the facility allows even short-term patients to skip therapy. They admit that under the guise of freedom of the resident, instead of telling them that they do not need to be there without therapy, they allow them to remain at the facility, but to transfer them against their will, down to the unit of long-term care management insists that residents apply for Medicaid to cover long-term treatment. Once they apply for Medicaid and receive Medicaid, this item has a lifetime income for that resident. The object is a guaranteed income simply because the person is long-term. These bad objects try to quickly fill their long-term beds, even accepting short-term residents and placing them in their long-term units. This is what happens. A short-term resident is sent to a long-term place - the same building, and there, once there, the staff allows a person to rot. Literally, they bring breakfast to bed, and they no longer go to the dining room. As soon as the patient is allowed to lie awake, day after day, this person, who was originally there for short-term care, develops bedsores, which never heal. Bedsore comes from laying in bed. Poor conditions allow the patient to go to bed, skip therapy and develop more bedsores. This is a vicious circle, and the resident is not even aware of what happened. Permission to receive Medicaid for this short-term patient, which turned into a long-term period due to carelessness and lack of care at the facility, is what keeps these bad objects. In the end, private patients will not choose this place, since they are so careless. And the residents of Medicaid have no choice what happens to them. I will write articles on how to avoid this vicious cycle, but I know that it exists, and it is happening today, at least in one rehabilitation and care center in Staten Island, New York, USA. Does it happen in the center, where are you located or where do you have relatives? Read my other articles to learn how to avoid such things.
- Do not forget to protect yourself at any time when inside the facility. Whenever possible, have a telephone connection and connect to the Internet. It is vital that you be connected to the outside world if you live or live temporarily in a physical rehabilitation and care center or nursing home. No matter how long you think about your stay, you need to constantly connect to someone outside. You need to have visitors. And if someone tries to stop you from visiting a patient, you need to activate the contact by writing to the Administrators and by writing to the Medicaid complaints department to correct the situation. For example, once in the state of Staten Island, some family members told employees that a resident was developing bedsores. As a result of this complaint, the facility administrators stopped the family from visiting, and the patient became worse and worse. Now, when the family does not attend, the facility has allowed the patient to rot in bed and develop three, four and five ulcers and pressure sores due to lack of care, from negligence and from the practice of malpractice. If someone tries to stop you from visiting patients or residents inside the institution, immediately contact the ombudsman, your state's attorney general and consumer affairs office, and any other office that can help you. Find a lawyer who will take your case, and when you have time, sue the facility for all the damage they have caused you and the patients and the rest of the family.
Perform the following steps:
Make sure you know what you are signing, all the time, making sure you have two or three pairs of points. Never, never sign anything without glasses.
Protect your other feelings by checking your hearing, checking your eyesight regularly and knowing your own home.
I am writing this because in the past I have met a woman who owned a house. (I knew that she owned the house because I met her soon after she bought it). However, this woman was proud and did not want to wear a hearing aid or wear glasses).
Due to the fact that she did not wear glasses, some unscrupulous relatives had their signature documents that signed her home. This woman did not even know that she no longer owned her own house. Relatives, nieces, trusted nieces, put the papers in front of them and made her sign them. She did not know that she was signing the documents that made the house nieces. At that time, the woman had no friends around her, and no one defended her interests. (I found out about this AFTER this happened).
She was isolated from nieces who brought her food and other things. But she did not know that her nieces sign her house. This woman thought she still lived in her own home.
How could she avoid it? She could avoid this by using her glasses. It so happened that she could not find the glasses that day, and she must have trusted her nieces, and she signed everything they said to her to sign. So, how she lost her home.
You lose everything because you have no points and do not see?
Protect yourself. (In this true story, the woman had no reason not to trust her nieces, but she seemed to do it, but did not know it. They even knew that she was signing without her.
(I learned about this after it happened years after its occurrence. As it turned out, the lady died many years after that. The nephews allowed her to live in the house and pretended that it was her house, and then she died).
I learned about it after I could not help this woman. But you, by reading this story, can help yourself and make sure that nothing like this happens to you.
A woman lost her home just because she lost her glasses. KEEP your glasses where you know they are, and there are always two extra pairs around the house so you don’t have to sign documents without glasses. You can sign your house and not know it.
But don't let that happen to you.
