Ted Chabasinski, retired public interest attorney and a key figure in the psychiatric survivors' movement, is ill and in need of help in paying for supportiver living, as his worsening diabetes and some of the consequences of that, inclduing locomotion and cognitive decline have made it impossible to continue to live independently in his rent-controlled Berkeley apartment of the last 46 years. He lives on a modest Social Security retirement benefit and has no living family members.

Ted has been away from his Berkeley apartment for over 3 months now, with three hospitalizations at different Kaiser hospitals (for out of control blood sugar and for recurrent infection in the skin of his legs from venous insufficiency causing swelling and breaks in the skin). He has also been at 3 different post-acute care facilities. He did receive a (pending ) Assisted Living eaiver for a senior living establishment in San Leandro, but placement in a memory care unit there did not work well for him.

Following his second hospitalization, in San Leandro, he moved to a board and care home in Union CIty, about 30 miles south of his home in Berkeley, and wes admitted to the Kaiser hospital in Walnut Creek after another bout of cellulitis and skin infection from venous insufficiency was too severe to be treated at the ungent care clinic there.

He is now in a different board and care closer to home, and near the Kaiser hospital in Oakland, owned and operated by the same woman who has the place he was staying in Union CIty. There are no subsidies available for board and care and he will not be able to pay the cost of care there without help from friends and supporters.

We are keeping his apartment in Berkeley rented in his name until further notice; another possibility is to pay for caregivers to assist him if he moves back to this familiar setting. We qualifies for some assistance from In Hme SUpportive Services, but despite having limited income and resources, he has a high share of cost even for the maximum hours.

Ted is extremely frail, medically and emotionally, and is quite aware that he can no longer take care of his basic living needs. His prognosis is uncertain and there are not sufficient friends on tap for him to pay the $6000 per month costs of board and care or in-home supportive services without assistance from friends and supporters.

FPrtuntely, he has very good health coverage through Kaiser Permanente but it does not cover long term care. This prognosis is uncertain and he is NOT considered a good candidate for hospice at this time.

THus, there will be ongoing need that we have no other way of meeting except through crowdsourcing.

Please consider becoming a regular monthly donor to this fund so that Ted can live his remaining life in comfort and dignity.

Ted is not well suited to skilled nursing care or other institutional health facilities, and needs to be in the most home-like and least restrictive setting possible. He has been a source of support, inspiration, and mentorship to many activists for patients' rights and freedom from medical and psychiatric injustice. It is now time for his friends and supporters to provide a helping hand in his hour of need.

Your support is not only needed; it is deeply appreciated.