Respite care option #3: Personal care assistant

Respite Care Explained: Page 3

By Barbara Kate Repa, Caring.com Senior Editor

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How it helps: Personal care assistants -- in addition to providing light housekeeping and homemaking tasks -- can help clients with bathing, dressing, toileting, and grooming. They can't provide medical services, such as diabetes care, but they can help administer prescribed medications and -- if they have the proper training -- help move those who have mobility limitations.

What it costs: Costs range from $15 to $40 per hour for intermittent help; $120 to $200 per day or more for live-in care.

How to get started: You can locate in-home care agencies in your area by searching Caring.com's Senior Living Directory.

Comments

tammya

tammya said...

25 days ago

i have a terminal disease but i

also have a child with cerebral pasly and what i need is someone to assst me as i get worse with my child and then someone to come in and help my oldest daughter with her after i am gone, please i dont want phone calls but you can email me

need a break

need a break said...

3 months ago

I want to contact an assisted living

home for my mother in the Conroe, Tx or surrounding area that will let her come for a few days as a trial. Eventually it will be permanently but I would like to start by doing a weekend every so often so that when that time comes, the transition will be much easier. I don't want to leave my phone number, I don't want calls ! But I would like to contact places on my own and at my convenience. Thank you

JusJody

JusJody said...

3 months ago

very helpful.. I work round the

clock with my Mother. i still feel guilty just going to store though..

Fluffers

Fluffers said...

4 months ago

I was reading an older comment

about an Alzheimer's patient who refused to go to respite care. My aunt was very stubborn about having caregivers come in to our home to help me out. I found that she will argue with me but not as much with other members of our family. I suppose that is because I am closest to her. In my case, I had the caregiver manager come out to meet her and she was impressed and signed on for care. Sometimes if I can't get her to do something, my husband can usually talk her into cooperation. You just need to get someone else to intervene depending on the situation.

An anonymous caregiver said...

7 months ago

Thank you for this article. I found

it helpful.

58bluelady

58bluelady said...

about 1 year ago

have you tried to get respite help

from the the agency on aging in your area, a care giver goes to your home and gives you a few hours to do what ever you did to do a few times a month.this is very helpful they work with your needs.you might give it a try the respite aids are all given a back ground check.good luck

Mary47

Mary47 said...

over 1 year ago

My mother-in-law tried to take

my father-in-law to a wonderful adult day program right in the area where they live, but he refused to go. He has Alzheimer's and can not be left alone. It would be a wonderful respite for my mother-in-law but he won't consider it, and he can be very stubborn. I've discovered that it is next to impossible to reason with an Alzheimer's person, or cajole him with the usual arguments. How can she persuade him to go to the adult day center? It would not be every day, just occasionally.

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