We used Visiting Angels for 14 months when my mom was very ill and bedridden and my dad was unable to care for her. Plus her care was so complex none of us could handle all the care involved...so CNAs were the way to go for us.
We had two round the clock CNAs, one came 3 days, the other 4. The ladies we were assigned were indeed “angels” and saw us through a most difficult time. They stuck with it the entire 14 months and became more like family members than “helpers.”
It wasn’t cheap, but my mom had retirement funds that we would have had to pay down anyway, she was deemed too ill for a nursing home, not terminal so no hospice, and the only other place they considered sending her was a specialty hospital, which was akin to the movie Coma...all the patients had feeding tubes and vents.
We (myself and siblings) still had to take an active role because the CNAs were not allowed to do certain things having to do with meds, etc. so we kids were involved but we all live close and it was not a problem.
Did they also do bathing and cooking.... or just general housework?
Do you have any idea if Medicare pays for any of that?