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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I am the very first PP.
Since the lady is bedridden there’s changing and feeding every few hrs; there’s repositioning a few times a day and bathing/change of bedsheets every week I think. The caregiver can leave for a few hrs at a time. No need for anyone to sit with the patient 24/7 since she can’t elope. [/quote]

The problem with leaving a bedridden patient alone in the home while the caregiver runs errands etc. is that the patient can die a horrible death in a house fire with nobody there to get them to safety.

Down the road from where I live nearly a dozen assisted living residents died in a facility fire because there were only two caregivers on staff overnight and the majority of the residents who had mobility issues could not get themselves out of the facility when it started up in flames. Firefighters saved dozens but they couldn't save them all.

That's the potential price of leaving disabled people unattended. One could argue that death by smoke inhalation isn't all that bad compared to the ravages of dementia decompensating a patient for several years until the sweet release of death finally comes. [/quote]

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