I'm not sure this is the correct area to put this, but I'm looking for answers. I am in a bit of a quandary because I have two parents that are not well and I've been dealing with their affairs for some time. My father is in assisted living, so his situation is solved, however I had to take my mother into my home. She is a dialysis patient, which adds a little more complication to the situation. My husband and I have two vacations planned and the bigger quandary is I want to stay married, so not going isn't really in the cards, however I have to work this out. Both my husband and I work very hard and of course when you add caregiving to the situation, it makes things tough....there really is no sense of privacy any longer. I need to find respite care for my mother for roughly five days and two of those days would be dialysis. There is really no family I can count on and the last thing I want to do is put my email and phone number on a website because the last time I did they liked to kill me with calls! I can't find much through their county, so just wondering if anyone has any suggestions of how they might have solved this. My preference would be an assisted living situation.
Most AL's that I've known have kept some short term room, nicely decorated and set up; sometimes they are used for patients who are "thinking about" moving in; sometimes they are used for respite.