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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not hire someone who works for hourly wage. Humans have been taking care of elderly without training for centuries. Anyone kind and helpful is good enough, doesn't have to be a certified expert.[/quote]
I'm not the OP

What kind of hourly wage do you think OP would need to pay?
What will OP do if the hourly wage employee doesn't show up for the shift one day (sick, car accident, just bailed?)
How should OP find this hourly wage employee?[/quote]

+1
All of this.
But mostly the call-out suck or accident situation.
Agency is the way to go because of coverage (if loved one needs care full time, then you have to have a back up plan).

Also agencies are $36/hour but the worker is paid like $18-20.
[b]You can hire someone cheaper directly if you can find them but then no liability insurance and no background check and no accountability if something goes wrong.

Placement in a care home is best especially if your loved one lives alone. They are SO vulnerable to theft or mistreatment. No oversight if they are the only ones there in the home.[/b]

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This, 100%. Do you really want to put cameras in every room and go searching footage every night? [/quote]

My FIL (now deceased) was able to stay in his home until the end, with assistance of two unlicensed aides, but only because MIL was generally around to oversee them and fill in when needed, and this was an LCOL area as decribed below.

It was narrow circumstances for many reasons why it could work, and only worked with MIL coordinating and overseeing. Even in the best of circumstance which I think theirs was, you risk theft/mistreatment and general flakiness which requires supervision/oversight.
-LCOL area
-They paid $30 hourly which was generous, he died just before the Pandemic. This is an LCOL area, with many fewer job opportunities than here btw (Consider, alternately these candidates could work taking care of babies/kids, at a store, etc - you are competing with those job responsibilities and schedules, benefits for the same job candidates.)
-No lifting was required. ILs already had a stairlift installed. FIL was never heavy but actually thin/frail at the end with difficulty keeping weight on.
-For most of the early times the job required being around if MIL could not be due to the fall risk, running errands. Gradually and at the end there were more toileting issues or cleanup the bathroom.
-Absolutely key: no cognitive issues for FIL or MIL (who is a number of years youger). FIL was a great guy and very pleasant and funny to be around. His personality was not to impose on people too.
-Did not hurt that their place had lovely views.

They found two wonderful ladies in their 50's/60's who lived closeby. MIL had to oversee and schedule them, and work out a couple issues, but it did work out in this specific circumstance of my ILs LCOL area with MIL supervision.

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