Re: no CG/MaryAnn

[Charlotte Mancuso <mancann@xxxxxxxx>]

Ray, others,

Forgive me, I haven't followed the whole thread, but for some people, a 
patchwork arrangement tailored to suit your needs might work. I live alone, and 
for the future when I'll be needing a good deal of help, I've thought about 
renting my spare room to someone who can provide some caregiving and basic 
daily housekeeping chores and errands, in exchange for low or no rent.

The roommate/caregiver might be retired or semiretired, and have some 
experience with caregiving/nursing, and housekeeping.  Someone would be there 
more or less around the clock, and available for caregiving  according to 
mutual agreement. This could be supplemented by another person who came to the 
home x times a week to do housekeeping, shopping, errands, and some cooking, 
such as a home-care worker, hopefully provided by Medicare, and maybe 
Medical/Medicaid, or perhaps your county's social services dept. I have a 
home-care worker twice a week who does general housekeeping, shopping, errands, 
and laundry. But could do caregiving as well, if I needed that.

Arrangements like this can be cumbersome, and need time and energy to maintain, 
but could be one alternative. I realize that this would be inadequate for 
people who need a great deal more care, but for that long, hopefully, period of 
time many of us could get by with such an arrangement.  Am I dreaming--what do 
you think?

Charlotte


---------- Rayilyn Brown <RayilynLee@xxxxxxx> writes:

From: Rayilyn Brown <RayilynLee@xxxxxxx>
To: PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: no CG/MaryAnn
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 23:55:38 EST

Mary Ann,  good advice. What about us folks with no CG?   I am looking into
everything California has to offer, including "Shared Housing', but you can't
be on your last legs so to speak for that.   Ray

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