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What plans are you making to age at home?
Aging Well | Last Active: Jun 10, 2022 | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
Good morning, @alive It often was for us. I tell this more as a precautionary tale for others so they can realize finding adequate home care can be very unlike the TV advertisements. I often wonder what that industry is like now that help is so hard to find for so many firms. At least here, I believe a contributing factor was these companies' business models. They were charging me $60-$75 an hour, but only paying their employees minimum wage. I understand "overhead", etc., but that imbalance seemed way out of whack to me and, I believe, contributed greatly to their atrocious turnover rates.
Hopefully, this will not be the situation in your community at all!
Strength, Courage, & Peace
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That is atrocious. I am dismayed. My brother is severely autistic and lives in a group home. The last two times that I was there I was shocked by the lack of knowledge that the carers had. They had a bossy superviser who made me think that adults, with various learning abilities had someone from prison. They have changed her and now have a motherly person on some of the days. The turnover rate of employees is super fast. I have no doubt that they were getting minuim wage.