I guess I don’t care how wealthy they are, my question is how much would it cost to hire someone to be your caretaker 24/7 and go with you everywhere you want to go like the grocery store etc
In the country I live at the moment, it is common to have a lady living in the house of an elderly person in good health but not enough to do their own cleaning or groceries. It is helpful and reassuring in case the older person falls and it also keep them company.
Those companions/helpers are often foreign (Ukrainiens at the moment) and are not expensive as you can imagine. However they receive food and lodging in addition to their agreed salary.
It seems to be beneficial relationships in more than one way as they keep company to each other and the helpers might even improve the local language with the person they care for.
This is a solution that I’m considering for my mother who has been very independent all her life and would rather throw herself out of the window rather than going to an expensive nursing home where “everybody are just waiting to die” (her words). I’d imagine the slight diminution of privacy is worth it.
Archaeologists in Spain have discovered evidence that ancient people defleshed and dismembered corpses around 6,000 years ago. But these aren’t clues to an ancient murder: Instead, the bone injuries are more likely related to funerary practices that occurred just after death....
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How wealthy are those elderly people who hire someone to be with them at all times, instead of moving into a nursing home?
I guess I don’t care how wealthy they are, my question is how much would it cost to hire someone to be your caretaker 24/7 and go with you everywhere you want to go like the grocery store etc
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People buried at 'mega' stone tombs in Spain were defleshed and their bones fractured after death (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Spain have discovered evidence that ancient people defleshed and dismembered corpses around 6,000 years ago. But these aren’t clues to an ancient murder: Instead, the bone injuries are more likely related to funerary practices that occurred just after death....