Comments on: California’s Invisible Autism Epidemic Continues http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/02/californias-invisible-autism-epidemic-continues/ Autism news and opinion Wed, 23 May 2012 16:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: leslie http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/02/californias-invisible-autism-epidemic-continues/#comment-103081 leslie Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:42:52 +0000 http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=4425#comment-103081 See "Autism Home Healthcare Staffing Realities" on You Tube for an insight look at how hard families have to fight for obvious needs. Here's a family that shows that they have a child who would cost state of California over 356,000 yr. PLUS (plus, meaning the basic cost of institutional care isn't factoring in the 1:1 this autistic patient would need). This family is willing to KEEP the child at HOME, which saves the state over 200,000 a year, yet the state agency charged with duty to provide home health care under Olmstead Act and other laws, is actually FIGHTING this family, and telling them, "we aren't equipped to help you....you should place your son in an institution until the budget cuts are over." As if they will ever be over. What is so news worthy about this story/case, is that the FAMILY has managed to do what GOVERNMENT has FAILED to do: keep their high risk, costly child at HOME. Yet, despite the family doing the job government can't do, the same government FIGHTS the family and tells them, "we can't offer you more than 12,000 dollars a month in home health care services," though the cost of OUT of home care costs would be around $33,000 month!. Now, that is clearly a REASON why California continues to be one of the states that just doesn't understand how to SAVE money. Source: Basic cost for institutional care at Fairview Developmental Center is around 356,000 per year, NOT including 1:1 or 2:1 overtime costs paying extra nurses and staff at institution to care for the type of autistic person portrayed in this and other videos on you tube under cdfoakley and kgaccount. The cost to KEEP this type of autistic person at HOME is FAR less than what it would cost to place him OUT of home. Keep in mind, this person portrayed in videos is OVER 18, so family does NOT have to keep him at home. But they are willing. A rare case indeed, which is a case study in cost effective in home care vs. out of long term nursing care expenses. So the question remains, if California officials do NOT provide this family with needed in HOME supports (nursing assessments repeatedly assessed this case at 2:1) then the state will be paying FAR more than what they need to pay to KEEP the child at HOME. It's RARE to find families that are WILLING to keep an autistic patient with this HIGH level of care at HOME. So instead of supporting this family, the state pushes them to place the child? How does that make economic sense? See “Autism Home Healthcare Staffing Realities” on You Tube for an insight look at how hard families have to fight for obvious needs. Here’s a family that shows that they have a child who would cost state of California over 356,000 yr. PLUS (plus, meaning the basic cost of institutional care isn’t factoring in the 1:1 this autistic patient would need). This family is willing to KEEP the child at HOME, which saves the state over 200,000 a year, yet the state agency charged with duty to provide home health care under Olmstead Act and other laws, is actually FIGHTING this family, and telling them, “we aren’t equipped to help you….you should place your son in an institution until the budget cuts are over.” As if they will ever be over. What is so news worthy about this story/case, is that the FAMILY has managed to do what GOVERNMENT has FAILED to do: keep their high risk, costly child at HOME. Yet, despite the family doing the job government can’t do, the same government FIGHTS the family and tells them, “we can’t offer you more than 12,000 dollars a month in home health care services,” though the cost of OUT of home care costs would be around $33,000 month!. Now, that is clearly a REASON why California continues to be one of the states that just doesn’t understand how to SAVE money.
Source: Basic cost for institutional care at Fairview Developmental Center is around 356,000 per year, NOT including 1:1 or 2:1 overtime costs paying extra nurses and staff at institution to care for the type of autistic person portrayed in this and other videos on you tube under cdfoakley and kgaccount. The cost to KEEP this type of autistic person at HOME is FAR less than what it would cost to place him OUT of home. Keep in mind, this person portrayed in videos is OVER 18, so family does NOT have to keep him at home. But they are willing. A rare case indeed, which is a case study in cost effective in home care vs. out of long term nursing care expenses. So the question remains, if California officials do NOT provide this family with needed in HOME supports (nursing assessments repeatedly assessed this case at 2:1) then the state will be paying FAR more than what they need to pay to KEEP the child at HOME. It’s RARE to find families that are WILLING to keep an autistic patient with this HIGH level of care at HOME. So instead of supporting this family, the state pushes them to place the child? How does that make economic sense?

]]> By: Are You the Parent of a Child with Learning Disabilities? « California Family Law Paralegal http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/02/californias-invisible-autism-epidemic-continues/#comment-77907 Are You the Parent of a Child with Learning Disabilities? « California Family Law Paralegal Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:52:50 +0000 http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=4425#comment-77907 [...] California’s Invisible Autism Epidemic Continues (leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk) [...] [...] California’s Invisible Autism Epidemic Continues (leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk) [...]

]]> By: Autism Blog – California's Invisible Autism Epidemic Continues … | My Autism Site | All About Autism http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/02/californias-invisible-autism-epidemic-continues/#comment-76322 Autism Blog – California's Invisible Autism Epidemic Continues … | My Autism Site | All About Autism Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:16:25 +0000 http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=4425#comment-76322 [...] Visit link: Autism Blog – California's Invisible Autism Epidemic Continues … [...] [...] Visit link: Autism Blog – California's Invisible Autism Epidemic Continues … [...]

]]> By: Laurentius Rex http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/02/californias-invisible-autism-epidemic-continues/#comment-76309 Laurentius Rex Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:16:19 +0000 http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=4425#comment-76309 The Truth is out there. These are political statistics, in the sense that they relate to statutory provision. I am sure they might have rich pickings for a cultural anthropologist or a sociologist because what they reflect is changes in social policy and the publics conceptualisation of various disorders. It is tantamount to societal munchausens by proxy with so much manipulation of diagnoses going on. It's not unlike the fraud that parents practice in the UK in order to have there children placed in schools, whose catchment area they do not live in. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8334503.stm The Truth is out there. These are political statistics, in the sense that they relate to statutory provision.

I am sure they might have rich pickings for a cultural anthropologist or a sociologist because what they reflect is changes in social policy and the publics conceptualisation of various disorders. It is tantamount to societal munchausens by proxy with so much manipulation of diagnoses going on.

It’s not unlike the fraud that parents practice in the UK in order to have there children placed in schools, whose catchment area they do not live in.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8334503.stm

]]>