Senior Assisted Living

Hire someone to work in home and keep him home.
You'll be glad you did even tho it is difficult.
More difficult to see a lack of care and understanding in local facilitties.
PM me if you need to.

I second Alana33's suggestion.

SeaView Home Health Agency has nursing & therapy services if he becomes homebound.

We looked at it for my Mom and decided it was not the right place.
It may be for someone else.
We kept Mom home with hired help not nursing and the therapy agencies.

One also has to have the bucks to spend and if you have the money then better to spend it in a way that you absolutely have control over the care your parent is getting. Mine was bedridden for more than 5 yrs. Not exactly easy but not impossible and better than our options in STT, at any facility, at the time.

Just to clarify --

On STX, SeaView is strictly home care, there is not a facility like there is on STT.

So if an older adult is staying home with hired help, Seaview's nurse and therapists would come into the home to supplement that. It is probably expensive if not covered by insurance, but a good extra resource to have in most cases.

Please consider your move very carefully. You should come for a PMV and check out the options for your grandfather. IMO FWIW - this is a very bad idea.

I try to never discourage anyone from moving to the VI but I will try and discourage you from bringing your grandfather here. I brought my homebound mother here when we moved to St. Croix. I will regret it for the rest of my life. I became homebound as well for two years because leaving her home alone was not an option and I could not find any help anywhere. Someone on this message board did post that there was help available but I was never able to find any help. I had to take my mother to the hospital once and it was a horrible experience. I know that some people have good eperiences at the hospital here but we did not. Please check out all the options before bringing your grandfather here.

I might add that having to deal with taking an elderly loved one to the hospital here from home can be a nightmare.
While emegency and ICU staff are great, when discharged from those wards to 2nd floor nursing for any time at all it is a nightmare and the sooner you get them out of the clutches, discharged and back home - DO IT!

PS

Find a good doc because if your Dad should pass away in your home, there shall be an autopsy required, unless, under a doctors supervision or he passes in the hospital.

Geriatric services on the island are not the same as stateside. Government services not as available and poor healthcare.
...so sorryy! Have to agree. very bad idea, unless lots of $$$ involved where you can hire a private caretaker.

I don't want to sound unkind regarding your elderly relative, but I've been told unless you were born here, you cannot be buried here. Somone on this board correct me if I'm wrong. If this is indeed true, this could add a financial burden to you and your family should he pass and have to be flown off-island for a state-side burial. I have to agree with others that this is a bad idea. Just my opinion tho.

I've been told unless you were born here, you cannot be buried here. Somone on this board correct me if I'm wrong.

I believe this is incorrect. There are some private burial grounds throughout the USVI which have certain restrictions on who may be buried in them but there's no "bahn here" requirement for burials in public cemeteries.

My father ashes were laid to rest at Sapphire. I don't know if scattering ashes counts as buried.