Anyone ever hire home health care aids?

We're moving my mother home from a nursing home and am in the process if hiring care for her. We need 24 hour live in, though mom sleeps through the night. She is immobile, hoyer lift needed. In talking with willing applicants, it seems they need to shift her every 2 hours. Because of that, the care required is more involved. The quote I'm getting is $375 a day. That adds up to $136k per year?! Does that seem right? Any thoughts from my Freeper friends much appreciated.

Your first paragraph nails it.

On a whole I see the government-sponored medical-industrial complex as a sector of the economy that preys upon basic human anxieties over sickness, pain, injury and death.

I hope to not ever see another doctor in my life.

I think you’ll stay healthier.

An ER doc once told me the reason he chose that speciality after he did his clinics in med school, “Most young people that get sick recover even without a doctor, old people die when their time comes and nothing you try to do can stop that and I can help hurt people.”

Yes. Took care of both mom and dad. Mom after hip replacement surgery was put in a rehab facility and promptly over dosed on oxycontin until she was looney. Then they worked up (the “staff” moron doctor did) an alzheimer’s diagnosis based on her drug reaction. We got her home for home care and to wean her off the oxycontin. Rate then (this was 2005) was 17/hour, with certified sitters at night, skilled nursing in the day.
Became impossible financially. Once weaned and back to normal with limitations, we placed mom in Assisted Living and she loved it, then gradually fading, moved “down the hall” to full nursing. All of this was much less than home care.

Word to the wise: take out everything of value in the home, all the silver, collectibles, spoons, gold, coins collections.... whatever. The people are bonded— but they steal. We caught two (both of them Indian women from India) on their hands and knees picking up a secreted silver serving spoon we had “lost”. Swore out a warrant on them and demanded a full refund for their entire time paid... and got it.

It is tough to care for our loved ones with the goal of comfort and personal dignity. Hope this has helped. Go with Assisted Living if possible, first. Never hospice at home, and only hospice facility if there is pain (as in terminal cancer), because they will push morphine on any patient, who will then no longer be hungry and will simply starve and dehydrate to death (from the morphine). Morphine is fine if terminal cancer or pain, but naught else. Also, keep in mind that the decision for hospice puts your loved one in the care of the hospice physician (no longer any personal physician involved— legally is detached from the care).

HECK!!! That’s about what I make. Do you pay under the table?

That is absolutely ridiculous.

My prayers for you mum and God bless you for being so dedicated and caring for her. She is a blessed woman and has a fantastic family.

You are only partially right about hospice. To begin hospice is for terminally ill patients. I am a in home hospice patient, and cannot say enough good about them. They make sure that I have everything that I need, and listen to me, and consult with the doctor. They have NEVER forced or even pushed any drugs. Morphine is used for other than pain. I have a rare lung disease. No pain, but shortness of breath. Keeps me from smothering to death.

Hello everyone. In regards to my previous post. I am a highly skilled engineer with a full manufacturing facility to back me up. If there is something any of you that can imagine that will help care for our elderly loved ones let me know. It seems ridiculously expensive that it is going to cost so much for someone to “turn” their loved ones. Heck. When I am that infirmed I’ll strap myself in to one of my CNC machines and program it to take care of all my needs.

This is a serious offer from a serious manufacturer. It may seem callous and cold but technology is a wonderful thing.

I think you’ll stay healthier.

Yeah, and the bonus feature of my health care program is that I might keep my guns a little while longer too.

As far as the medical industry... I seriously want nothing to do with any of it... especially this whole electronic record"keeping" thing.

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