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[log in to unmask] wrote: > > 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