Posted on 01/20/2020 7:34:05 AM PST by oh8eleven
Nine years ago, we tried Visiting Angels for awhile to keep my mom in her home. It was $20.00 an hour back then. My mom needed care 24/7 so $480.00 per day. Medicare wouldn't cover a dime.
It's truly frightening what elder care costs. I tried doing it myself in our home for six months until my own health began to fail. The word exhaustion doesn't even come close to describing what one on one care, all day, everyday, does to a person.
I think I can buy my own bagels and Froot Loops, and make my own bed. Housekeeping isn’t going to wash my unmentionables, so clean sheets and towels have a limited long-term value when I still need to visit a laundromat on occasion.
I’ll grant you the utilities, but most apartments provide heat and water, and some provide cable and internet.
“So the old guy made friends with a local cabbie, bought them both rooms at the resort, then arranged a cab ride back which he couldn’t pay for. So the cabbie delivered him to the local lock-up where he could now legally stay until spring because he was serving time for a crime.”
He should be put in jail for doing that!
Holiday inn has less chance of getting norovirus on a cruise
Exactly as long as healthy not a problem. Once you are not it’s not a viable option
““Assisted living” is a scam.”
Any business getting government income is such, to widely varying degrees, depending on the competitive alternatives.
With Assisted Living, what’s the alternative for children of elders? Taking them in? Today’s children of elders?
“At first glance, I thought the story was funny. But the more I thought about it ... it’s actually not a bad option.”
When my father became ill, we suggested he stay at the Waldorf Astoria. It was cheaper than the hospice where he eventually wound up at.
No not everywhere.
Not with maid service, full maintence and 24 hour call.
Parking plowing, and a resturaunt on site if needed.
“[Note: article is about a year old].”
Published here last year and discussed by me as being a recycled 14-year-old story.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3730681/posts?q=1&;page=21
I’m in Idaho so things may be different here. My mother was in her home with Home Health folks making sure she was showered and fed as long as she could. She got angry every time I mentioned assisted living. After a few falls I just brought her to a place we had checked out. 20 residents, full time staff and nurse, private room. Meals, entertainment and activities, physical therapy Beauty parlor. She was really angry at first but after a month thanked me and realized she needed ( and I suspect she enjoyed the attention.) the help. Most of the staff were angels in scrubs. The price was less than her mortgage. God bless the folks who do this work well. My Mom had great care for 3 years before passing away.
$1.8K will go a long was in flyover country. For that kind of money he could get an upscale 1 bedroom apartment with a pool and workout room and still have a wad of money left over.
I'm in an expensive 55+ apartment complex and pay $65 dollars a day, plus utilities.
free continental breakfast, gym, pool, structured activities (free), super nice game room, walking trails, excellent walkability in Charleston SC. Lots of nice company.
We lived in Kobe during the big earthquake in 1995. Shortly after, I would notice big, burly American blue collar workers, carpenters and such, riding the trains. I chatted one of them up and found out that they had been given 90 day "training visas" to show the locals how to rebuild quicker. The reality was that they were doing the heavy duty reframe and wall work and the locals were doing the detail work. The government had eased the visa law temporarily because they needed the workers and they knew the Americans would not likely be staying on when the job was done.
So some seasonal blue collar guys from America got some very profitable work for three months and some Japanese customers didn't have to wait nearly as long to get rebuilt.
“if you get in with 125 a night, you are doing good.”
I ask for discounts, nicely negotiate, often get to the $80’s range for short stays. Also, if there’s a big business in the area, ask for that company’s discount (counter folk don’t inquire about it), often well below $80.
everyone ages differently.
there are 50 year olds who cannot walk well, paratroopers in their prime, and the guys in trucks climbing poles or using their bodies to the max? Not a lot left.
“My mother was in a nursing home at $6,000 a month and she could not get a cup of coffee in the afternoon, it was a disgrace.”
Look at the staff. Low-pay, max profit.
Most holiday ins have washers on site, and often a willing maid who will wash for cash while she is working.
My folks in NH with an incredible assisted living experience.
Locally owned, very friendly and attentive staff, constant arts, exercise and other activities, chefs who’ll prepare special meals for you and have their own garden on the extensive grounds, etc.
The decision to move from their home was tough, but they immediately started having a wonderful experience.
If I’m going to be living in a Holiday Inn, it will be in a location that won’t require parking lot plowing.
You have a good memory ...
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