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the best money my family ever spent was to consult with a professional care manager (it would be this kind of person in California: http://alcalacaremanagement.com/). our care manager helped manage family communications--which sometimes can get dificult, helped us choose which doctors and home care services were appropriate, gave us tips on how and where to find good home help--either full-time or part-time check-in. basically the home care person had been through all this before with many, many families and had seen it all. the home care advisors can be consulted with occasionally or can be hired on a kind of retainer. we did not use alcalacare but i have friends who did and said he was helpful, knew about everything, and remained patient with different types of changes and new directions as things proceeded with elder care.Does anyone here have any experience with the people coming to the house to assist? I don't understand why this isn't a much bigger market. My wife's mom asked about this over Christmas and we would love to make it happen, but have no idea how. Someone stopping by 2 or 3 times a week just to check in would be a life saver (maybe literally)
it's worth even a preliminary phonecall to an eldercare specialist to see what they can do for you and whether it would worth your time. they can point you to the kinds of services you might need now or later in the process. we basically checked in with the elder care specialist from time to time just for a sanity check and they guided us well every time. good luck!