Hi everyone,
It has been a while since I last posted on this forum. Our mum is 78 and after 4 weeks in hospital because of sepsis, she is now in the second week of interim residential care waiting to be assessed.
This has been brewing for a while and now there is no doubt that she cannot continue to live independently as it poses too much of a risk to her health and safety, and none of us are able to do this ourselves as financially we can't afford to..
We were looking at engaging a self-employed live-in carer but preferably someone with geriatric/dementia nursing experience. The cost of engaging an agency is just as expensive as some of the more costly nursing homes, if not more in some cases so we wanted to look into a private arrangement.
The problem is that we need it to be 24/7 365 days as none of us are in a position to drop everything for unplanned interruptions in care, so perhaps a 'tag team' would be a good idea, as some of the agencies have in their packages.
I wondered if anyone has had a live in carer on a self-employed basis and how easy it was to recruit.
Thanks.
It has been a while since I last posted on this forum. Our mum is 78 and after 4 weeks in hospital because of sepsis, she is now in the second week of interim residential care waiting to be assessed.
This has been brewing for a while and now there is no doubt that she cannot continue to live independently as it poses too much of a risk to her health and safety, and none of us are able to do this ourselves as financially we can't afford to..
We were looking at engaging a self-employed live-in carer but preferably someone with geriatric/dementia nursing experience. The cost of engaging an agency is just as expensive as some of the more costly nursing homes, if not more in some cases so we wanted to look into a private arrangement.
The problem is that we need it to be 24/7 365 days as none of us are in a position to drop everything for unplanned interruptions in care, so perhaps a 'tag team' would be a good idea, as some of the agencies have in their packages.
I wondered if anyone has had a live in carer on a self-employed basis and how easy it was to recruit.
Thanks.