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Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Apr 25 6:21am | Replies (25)

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When we get “there”, I don’t think I can send my husband away from home and off to a facility. I am hoping that since I will be living with him we will be able to find caregivers to come to our home. I honestly don’t know how I could live with just visiting him at a care facility

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I just found out about “ Go Go Grandparents”. Check them out they have different services available including rides and home care. I think they charge $248 a year and also a monthly charge but well worth it.

I was just thinking about you the other day and how you are doing?
I am starting to see subtle changes
but still trying to hang in there.
I may go to counseling? It’s not helping that he fractured his back so he is wearing a brace now. Have a great day and take a breath every now and again. 😍

That's an understandable feeling. And pardon me for saying so, but it may be wrong. I also had no idea how I would do that "final drive" of taking my mother to the memory care unit. But I finally did it, AFTER spending many thousands of dollars on home care, which in retrospect was not a good value because:
- all I did was postpone the inevitable
- the at-home care was not very good
- her present memory care unit is quite good
- that money could have been used for other things like grandchildren's college tuition.

The whole under-the-table in-home caretaker thing left me feeling very taken advantage of. It essentially left me responsible for supervising a rotating staff of 4-6 in-home caretakers, despite there being a woman who claimed she would be the "manager". I was totally unprepared for this. I have never had employees, and I have never fired someone. I was not prepared to manage the bank account. It was all dumped on me. I had little or no help.