Seems like most universities/colleges have a employment program you might look
into
From: Gail Overton <[email protected]>
To: Jeffrey Gaede <[email protected]>; Lori Michaelson
<[email protected]>; Dave Krehbiel <[email protected]>; quad-list
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 1:05 PM
Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Who cares for the family caregivers?
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{}#yiv8715922735 Yeah just had professors send an email to their PT/OT students
at a local college in Phoenix; no response………… From: Jeffrey Gaede
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 12:50 PM
To: Lori Michaelson; Dave Krehbiel; quad-list
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Who cares for the family caregivers? If you have any,
try nearby colleges, universities, training institutes From: Lori Michaelson
<[email protected]>
To: Dave Krehbiel <[email protected]>; quad-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Who cares for the family caregivers? If you don't
qualify for extra help (a.k.a. Medicaid)... you're going to end up paying out
of pocket. I had the best luck when I was living with my sister and
brother-in-law by word-of-mouth but now, out here, I have a live-in caregiver
(no one else) so she needs help but before my husband passed away we were able
to find girls at a local church and they were less expensive than home health
aides that want to be paid $26/hour to be a glorified babysitter let alone do
anything. I am on the SCIC caregiver listserv (and have been for many many
many years) and the owner of the list is the mother of a Quad but I believe
that she died and her son (the quad) died before her but I could be wrong. I
still get their monthly list of what to do about this, that and the other thing
so you could always subscribe to that. [email protected] Right now I am
trying to find help for a few hours a week and I can't even find that anymore.
People want jobs... so where are they? I have been trying for a long time. My
husband and I were so happy that we could find those girls and we had
caregivers every morning (4 visits from a home health agency aide was great)
and we hired the other woman for the other three days. They would screw up with
a lot of things and my husband had to step in to help with a transfer or
whatever but it was better than nothing. We then hired those girls we found
from the church. I am still trying to work through that again but I've been
trying for months. Now it is hard as hell to find a home health agency since
my only insurance is Medicare. Things were better five years ago but now it
seems like you have to have Medicaid (in whatever state you are in) to qualify
for the free help. Good luck! On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Dave
Krehbiel <[email protected]> wrote: I have been a quadriplegic for
nearly 10 years now, and as a consequence, my wife has taken on the role of
being a family caregiver for almost 10 years. She needs help. I have some
ideas about setting up an organization to help support family caregivers, and
right now I am doing some research. Are you aware of any helpful programs or
resources or information or organization supporting family caregivers? Thanks
so much, and take care, Dave Krehbiel Olney, MD
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