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[quote=Anonymous]I had one grandmother who had agency help bc of where she lived, and another who had direct hire help in her home. The agency would send very inexperienced and different people all the time--I showed up unannounced and my grandmother was in a terrible state and I had to call 911. We eventually got two wonderful people thru the agency that job shared for 24 hour care and were wonderful, but it definitely took time. We gave all the furniture in the apartment to one of them when she passed and she gave a lovely speech at the funeral.

The direct hire people we had "stolen" from the rehab facility after a stay there. They were good at their job, grandma liked them, and they did agree to administer meds despite it being out of their scope of care. But they started calling off a lot, and one of them asked for an advance to pay her bills. We gave it, but then asked for another one, and it was a kind of spiral on that end of things. Long term, we ended up paying my cousin to live there--she was unemployed and working thru some stuff, and that actually worked out really well in the end.[/quote]

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