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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand how home care is so expensive. Renting an apartment is say $3k per month; hiring a caretaker (not a nurse, just someone to make sure mom stays in place, who feeds her and takes her to the bathroom) is maybe another 5k per month. 
I am friends with a state paid caregiver and she is paid about 5-6k per month to take care of a bedridden dementia patient. The apartment is section 8 in that case. [/quote]

$5k per month? More like $40 per hour. Differential for overtime, holidays and Sundays. More like $5000 per week.[/quote]

I think if the family is willing to do some care then this is the only way to make it affordable. move mom into the basement and hire elder care for 40 hrs/week. The rest you do yourself. In some families they rotate the elderly parent between houses. [/quote]

I am the very first PP.
Since the lady is bedridden there’s changing and feeding every few hrs; there’s repositioning a few times a day and bathing/change of bedsheets every week I think. The caregiver can leave for a few hrs at a time. No need for anyone to sit with the patient 24/7 since she can’t elope. [/quote]

Can we please stop using the word elope? To elope means to run away to get married. [/quote]

For some reason it’s used a lot on forums for parents of severely autistic kids [/quote]

The 'some reason' is because it is a medical term - like many words in the English language, it has different meanings in different contexts.

One meaning is to run off and get married without parental permission and/or without guests and formal celebration, but the other meaning applies to dementia patients, psych patients, and those with developmental disorders or on the spectrum whose symptoms require they be monitored 24/7 and not to walk freely in the world without supervision.

So yes, you will see people posting about eloping elders and eloping children because that is what the medical system calls it when your patient escapes a restricted setting and goes off into the world to face all the dangers inherent there for somebody without the mental faculties to care for themselves.[/quote]

Here is a useful link where you can see the word utilized in a medical context: https://home.ecri.org/blogs/ecri-blog/10-steps-to-preventing-patient-elopement#:~:text=Patient%20elopement%20is%20when%20individuals,to%20aid%20in%20elopement%20prevention.[/quote]

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