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> The problems with Home Health Care exist in every state at every
> level.....our need is not to just band with PD patients.....but
> families/patients of every age.....but keep in mind these things do
> come with
> a price tag....someone must pay.
>
> 1.  Our tax dollars pay for home health care.....how much are you
> willing to
> spend?  To bath me 12 per hour to do my laundry,ect 9 -10 per hour. If the person has a medical 2 year degree 12. per hour.
> 2.  More than just YOPD are in need of Home health
> care....paraplegics,
> quadraplegics, MS, MD, CP, CF, accident survivors to name only a very
> few.
> Preemies (with a lifetime of health problems)....many need care to
> keep the
> breathing tube in place.....not to make light of our
> problems.......but we
> are really fortunate to have even 1 hour of on time during the day.

yes i am very thankful, but I am willing to pay then I expect the person
to show up and not watch soaps and yak on the cell phone.

> 3.  Salaries/benefits at McDonald's/Target are higher than many HHA's
> receive...call your senator/rep and volunteer to increase your
> taxes...........or move from the US and enjoy a much higher tax basis
> to
> receive more care at home (with less choice in medical care in many
> instances).....I am not trying to be demeaning...but expressing
> realities of
> paying for what you get.......(I know...every country has taxpayer
> waste).

HHA in Ohio get 8.50 to 16 bucks per hour. McDonnell's pays 6-7.

> 4.  How many people in the US are willing to work in jobs where the
> pay scale
> is not going to increase dramatically......or to do the work that HHA
> have to
> do.
>  If a person wants to earn what doctors or nurses make then go to COLLEGE like they did. Life isn't free. Life isn't fair. Now a days a person can take out a loan for tuition or work like others to go to college. Do co-op.
Everyone has to start somewhere . Noone starts at the top of the pay
scale, nor is everyone going to get there.

> My family is not immune to these problems.....
Isn't medicare paying some of her nursing care?? medicaid??
we have been paying for
> my
> mother to be in a nursing home for 3 years now (dementia from
> strokes....unable to move)....and we cringe every month when we
> receive a
> letter from the nursing home re: needs for employees.....and have
> watched as
> the nursing home closed affiliated units, closed day care, closed
> wings.....because of lack of adequate coverage by staff....unable to
> hire
> because of salaries....in MN.  Prior to that time we tried to hire
> help to
> stay with Mother at her home....she lived 800 - 1000 miles from my
> sister and
> me.
>
> Our extended family has taken time from our work and homes to stay
> with a
> niece who eventually died of complications following surgery for a
> brain
> tumor in New Mexico.
>

> Our extended family has taken time from our work/schedules/homes to
> stay with
> a chronically ill grandchild who has survived two liver
> transplants......in
> California.
>
> Yes, there is a need all over the country for help......but we all
> have to be
> willing to solve the problems....and we all will make sacrafices......
>
> Rita Weeks  56/11