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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and his brothers pay for non-licensed aides to take care of their mother round the clock in her own apartment. She has always said she did not wish to go to a nursing home. They looked for aides from her own community, speaking her own language and cooking her cuisine. They are cheaper than 
"official" senior aides because they have practically no education (not sure they even graduated high school), but after a decade of shopping for my MIL, cooking, cleaning, giving massages, and helping with very complex medication needs and increasing toileting needs, they have proved themselves very caring and trustworthy people. They are supervised, of course, by the son who lives nearby.

So in the end it comes to less than 5K a month, for an advanced Parkinson's patient owning her own apartment and with one child able to physically visit once every two days.

On my side of the family, I have a relative who paid for her in-laws with dementia to stay in their own home with round the clock aides, and she mentioned that it cost less than a nursing home. It also made them happier. 
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