Hiring professional caregivers

Hiring professional caregivers can be an overwhelming task for adult children of aging parents. Most of the time you only have a list of companies given by the hospital discharge planner. Not only that but you need the caregivers yesterday! Your parent wants to go home and usually her doctor wants her to go to a nursing home. Mom will say anything to get out of the hospital, including agreeing to caregivers. You start calling names on the list and whoever costs the least and gets out there the quickest wins the job. It may not matter anyway because mom's plan is to fire the caregivers after a day or so anyway. So you have done all that work, gone through all that stress for basically nothing. And the icing on the cake is mom still needs help so she doesn't repeat the trip to the hospital. Guess who is left holding the caregiving bag? That's right, you.

If this sounds familiar write me and tell me your caregiving stories.