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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know where you live OP but here in DCUM land a good care giver is hard to find and more like $30-50/hr. Friend just went through this with very elderly parent. [/quote] Yeeks. Don't tell me that. I've heard that the minimum is 4 hrs/day, 3x a week. So figuring the average $40 that's $160 a day, or almost $500 a week, or more than $2,000 a month (plus the $3600 for the apartment). Still, it's cheaper than assisted living. The problem will come in when my mother thrives over being tended to and starts "proving" to us that she needs full time, and then we are at $10,000 just for the aide, plus the apartment. My hope would be that she is willing to make do with an aide 3x a week. I suppose time will tell. [/quote]
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