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You're going to spend a lot of money if you hire a nurse (RN/LPN/LVN).
Why would you need such an advanced level of care for your husband? Does he have dressing changes, insulin shots, feeding tube, colostomy, or some other advanced medical problem?
I was quoted anywhere from $19 to $26/hour, but learned when I was ready to hire that that was only for nonskilled people. Medically skilled staff are billed at a higher rate. The agencies don't always tell you that!
The agency that I considered hiring had alternate rates - $x per hour, for a minimum of 3 or 4 hours (I don't remember right now), or a much higher rate for just one hour.
Perhaps the biggest surprise was that I specifically wanted someone, either an aide, CNA, LPN or RN, for pureeing food for a dysphagia diet. Although I spoke with 3 different people at different levels in the agency I was considering, and over a period of 3 -4 months, and was advised that dysphagia management wasn't a problem, when the actual interview and assessment was held, I was advised by the nurse interviewer that SHE felt dysphagia diet management was too much liability and they wouldn't participate in anything related to it. And before I was told that, I was ready to hire them.
Then the agency I did hire (a well known international franchise agency) sent someone who claimed until it came right down to the wire that she knew how to puree for a dysphagia diet. When I got out the food and food processor, she said she knew that the kitchen staff did the pureeing. She didn't know herself. Yet she represented to me when she first arrived that she know how to. I don't like liars.
So make a list of your husband's conditions and ask about each potential candidate's experience with that condition. I learned now to ask not if they knew how, but rather what kind of experience and how much of it had they had.
I also prepared a work scope with a list of activities to be performed. At the assessment with the liability conscious nurse, almost all of the proposed activities were eliminated, or kicked into a category that ran significantly higher than the mid 20's rate.
Dad and I were quite pleased with the caregivers. Eventually Dad choose one that he really liked and she was helping Dad for over a year. For the weekend, Dad choose another one that he really liked, also over a year. Kinda like handing out a "rose" :)
Matching personalities was a big help. Both caregivers had similar family background and the same sense of humor :) Gave Dad and the caregivers a lot to talk about.
Eventually my Dad needed around the clock care which I couldn't do since I was a senior myself. Having caregivers around the clock was costing Dad $20k per month, yes per month. Dad decided to move to senior care where it was around $6k per month, even Memory Care. Dad went into Memory Care at the right time where he was still able to learn the floorplan of the complex, know the Staff, etc.
So it will come down to what kind of care will he need. An CNA at $20, an LPN at $30 or an RN at $40 an hr.
Just curious, if in Memory Care why did u choose to bring him home? He will only need more and more care as time goes on.