Newbie here!
To qualify for LTC, it is known that my parent will have to be certified not to be able to do or sufficiently significantly not be able to do two of the ADL's, Activities of Daily Living.
So once that is observed and officially documented and once she pays through the LTC waiting period, she can receive LTC assistance in her home. (She does not need a nurse.)
But (1) does the home care person (working for a licensed health care agency) assist her with the ADLs (Activities of Daily Living)? They must right? And (2) to what degree does that home care person assist her with non-ADL daily tasks such as, laying out her medications, making dinner, taking out the trash, sweeping the floor w a broom? Thank you!
So, they did Mom's laundry, including changing her bedding as needed, emptied the dishwasher and the trash, and cooked meals, including steel cut oats for the next day as well as fruit and veggie snack bowls. Sometimes one would sweep the kitchen or clean Mom's bathroom.
They wouldn't handle medication, but would do reminders. They wouldn't trim toenails, but would apply lotion following directions for lymphedema massage.
One was happy to pick fresh fruit from the yard, Another appealed to management when asked to put a single Trader Joes basil plant into the ground by the front door.
I hired caregivers for my mother for a brief period before she went into a nursing home, and they would make her meals for her, but they didn't clean up the kitchen other than what she had dirtied -- her dishes, the pots and pans used -- but not my dishes. That was fine and what I expected, but no, they weren't going to pick up a broom, empty the trash or do any of the things I could do because I was living in the house with my mother at the time, too.
You'll need to check with the agency providing the caregivers, but don't expect anything beyond the most basic housekeeping. They are not housekeepers.
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