I live in California and have parents who are getting older now and things are unfortunately starting to go downhill. I work full time and have a generally busy lifestyle and wasn’t able to be there to care for them. My father was slowing slipping into dementia and it was getting harder to ensure that they were safe while I was away.
The last thing I wanted to do was put them in a home as I knew it would just crush their spirits even further so I went on a search to find alternate in-home care options. I went through a couple of different services but wasn’t really happy with any of them.
Has anyone else had good/bad in-home caregivers?
I dealt with an agency one time and boy was I burned. They sent out a crazy woman who was a thief and promised that they did thorough background checks. I will NEVER use an agency again. They charged me $18 per hour for somebody that, had I met her previously, I would not have allowed in my home.