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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand how home care is so expensive. Renting an apartment is say $3k per month; hiring a caretaker (not a nurse, just someone to make sure mom stays in place, who feeds her and takes her to the bathroom) is maybe another 5k per month. I am friends with a state paid caregiver and she is paid about 5-6k per month to take care of a bedridden dementia patient. The apartment is section 8 in that case. [/quote] $5k per month? More like $40 per hour. Differential for overtime, holidays and Sundays. More like $5000 per week.[/quote] I think if the family is willing to do some care then this is the only way to make it affordable. move mom into the basement and hire elder care for 40 hrs/week. The rest you do yourself. In some families they rotate the elderly parent between houses. [/quote]
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