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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have a plan in mind for when your aide is sick or has a conflict.  If you're hiring directly rather than an agency, what's your backup plan?[/quote]

Also, on the other end, it helps to think in advance about what happens if your parent goes into the hospital unexpectedly and doesn’t need the aide’s services for a length of time. My mother spent more than a year developing the relationship with her aide, and then she almost lost her when she had to spend 2 weeks in the hospital. The aide supports her family and lives paycheck to paycheck, and 2 weeks without pay is a long time. She’s hired through an agency (paid for by Medicaid) and luckily was able to make do with a combination of touching it out and covering some shifts for other aides who were out. But the situation caused a lot of stress during a bad time to have extra stress. Especially if you’re hiring someone directly and in charge of the payment terms, it’s useful to talk about plans for this type of situation *before* it arises. [/quote]

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