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My parents are no longer able to live independently and I don’t know what to do. My house has lots of stairs and isn’t really big enough so they can’t live here. My father has dementia and asks the same question every 5 minutes if he’s not at home. My mother is mentally sound but in bad physical health. My father has a very modest pension and based on what I’ve seen online, they can’t afford AL together. I’m not sure what to do. I’m an only child but have three young kids of my own to take care of.[/quote]

This is tough. Do they have any long term care policies? Do they own property? It may be time to sell and use those funds, you may eventually hit medicaid if you spend it all down. I agree with using a placement agency to start.  If they can share a room in AL it would be less expensive than one in memory care and one in AL for sure, but if your father's dementia progresses he wont be allowed to stay in AL and will have to move to memory care if he wanders, becomes aggressive, etc. In home care will be prohibitive. [/quote]

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