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[quote=Anonymous]OP—first off I am sorry your family is going through this.
It is NOT easy.

pPs are correct that you will not find a nursing home or assisted living community for under $6500/month. At least not in DMV.
You will find base rate rooms for between $5500-7000 but then you have to add daily care fees and medication management fees in tio of that, depending on what level of care she needs.

Here is the very difficult part that you need to truly understand: residing in a nursing home will not reduce her fall risk, unfortunately. Falls will continue to happen because she is unstable and because of her dementia.

But private in-home 24/7 care at $32-36/hour is about $24,000/month.
If she has LTC insurance then it helps, but likely won’t cover all of it.

If she owns the home that you all currently live in, you might need to consider selling her home to pay for the nursing home care costs.
Or maybe you can hire in-home help during the day and then you can put an alarm on her bed at night to reduce falls. [/quote]

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