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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My father had 2 aides - 24/7 for his last several years.  We chose to always have 2 aides - to make it easier on them and also we just felt it was a safety net to have two people.  My Dad was mostly unable to communicate the last year.

We never expected anything beyond care for my father.  But they did all kinds of things - laundry, cooking, baking - decorating for holidays -- seemed like they did stuff to help with the boredom.

I agree with the PP -- be grateful if your parent likes them and if they seem to like your parent.  Treat them with respect.[/quote]
Wow. 7 days a week of 24 hours so that is 168 hours. Using two people is 336 hours that need covering a week. Assuming a person worked 40 hours a week that would take slightly over 8 people to cover.

How much did that cost?! Did you or an agency really use 8 people?

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We used a small agency - run by a woman that also managed my mother's care several years earlier.  This is in a small New England town.  Her parents went to high school with my parents.  There were probably 12-15 people that rotated out through the week.  There were 5-6 that never changed and then several that came and went.  There were times during COVID that the agency owner stayed overnight with my Dad.  She billed as a care manager at 80.00/hr.  The caregivers billed at 25.00/hr.  It was all expensive but worth it.  The more I hear about other people struggling with eldercare -- the more I realize how lucky we were.          Another advantage of small town life -- the care manager seemed to know everyone and or be related to them.  So during COVID my Dad had to be in the hospital (for a non COVID thing) and because our care manager's cousin was head of the Council of the Aging and another was an admin at the hospital -- they made an exception for my father to have a caregiver with him at all times.    When I think back (my dad died summer of 23) I don't think I really appreciated how lucky we were to have such great care.[/quote]

Even with small town, most could not afford that.  At $25/hour with 2 aides, you are spending $1200/day or $36K per month or about $440K/year.  In a more urban area, you would be paying $35-40/hour ($1920/day and $58K/month or almost $700K/year).  It would be much more cost effective to put them in memory care or assisted living at $12-14K/month and hire an extra aid for 6-8 hours per day.  [/quote]

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