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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]

The state paid caretaker is only working 8-12 hours a shift.  The day has 24 hours in it, so you need to double or triple the 6k a month.  My in laws in home care cost 22K a month (through an agency) and that was 3 years ago.  [/quote]

My (second hand) experience is in CA. Here it’s usually 283 hrs o care per month at the max (some ppl get more with complicated cases but my neighbor gets 283). She is bedridden. Her caregiver feeds and changes her but otherwise there is no work except some bathing and repositioning. I am not saying it’s an easy job but it’s not a $15k per month job is what I’m saying.

It’s harder when dementia patients roam around but usually there’s a fall and if no surgery then they are contained after. [/quote]

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