UPDATE TO COME

All - Look for an update later today or tomorrow. I am starting my drive back to NJ on Sunday and will be home on Monday. I wish I could stay longer. I wish I could find comparable work in Greenville and just be the live-in. So far, no luck.

The update will cover:

• Assisted Living/Skilled Nursing Facility Overview
• The Center for Successful Aging - The Cottages at Brushy Creek.....very interesting place. Everyone should consider visiting. I am leaving brochures in the kitchen.
• Question to consider: Are we are at a crossroads? Is In-Home Care likely to eat up more funds and become more costly as we go through the decline? Would we be better served to move Mom now?
• Would a move of Mom downstairs offer us more opportunity to enhance the quality of Mom's life or would the chair lift suffice? Either way, it seems, would require expenditure of funds.
• Related question: Options on financing whatever it is we will do.
• What I have acquired from Costco, etc. for in-home care support and where it is located
• Foods I have prepared for future consumption and what is in the freezer

I'll reiterate what I said before: the Caregivers are committed to continue but, in my opinion, we do run the risk that the physicality of the job will cause a catastrophic change in their ability (hurt back, for example.) I'll let you draw your own conclusions about this so it is extremely important that you experience it first hand.

In general, things seem to be more in control and more predictable in terms of Mom's toileting needs. She is accepting the "panties that have the built-in pad" (i.e., the Depends). No one has used the word "diaper" or "Depends" in front of her....

As you look at this list, fire back some thoughts/questions so I cover what is on your mind.

Thanks.

Eileen