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@dhrubasen

Great advice

At my place I am asked to provide two post transplant caregivers 24x7. People living with family this is not a challenge but those living alone - this will be a challenge. No rehab or pvt nursing home is acceptable to the transplant team. Hiring 24x7 at home nurses for say 6 weeks is expensive. Any suggestion on how to deal with this situation?

Thanks!!

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@dhrubasen, not having family at home makes finding full time caregiving tough and expensive. @bevprescott @katebw @cwendel77 may have experiences and tips to share about their caregiving circumstances.

It sounds like you have talked to your transplant team about what qualifies as a caregiving facility. Have you spoken with a transplant social worker to help find acceptable services?

@dhrubasen My husband and I were not together at the time of his transplant, not even living in the same town! What we did is, his daughter took a couple days a week for the caretaking, and I took the other days. This allowed her to continue working and take care of her family as needed. I was already retired from my full-time job and could manage to get my part-time hours changed around. My suggestion is to approach either family members or good friends who would perhaps team up and offer their help. It's not a medical position, and truly in my mind, it was nothing more than common sense for the caretaking. Besides, you might get tired of looking at the same person 24/7 LOL! Is this something you could look into, or perhaps a team from your faith community. Let's see what the others have to say about how they handled caretaking duties.
Ginger