Need help/direction in finding a certified live in nurse for elderly aunt.

A live in CNA or home health aid would be more affordable. I alive in nurse, even if you could find one, would cost hundreds of dollars a day. If you want to consider some type of residential/assisted living facility there are some great one's that I know of in suburban Phila. (I work at one of them). Residential care may be a good opition. The facility I work out has suites, with bedroom, bath, and kitchenette with sink, storage, and microwave, but the residents still get help with medications, personal care, laundry, and any treatments. They are free to come and go at will, have the keys to their own door, and there is unrestricted visiting 24 hours a day. Good residential placement is available and may be less expensive than maintaining the home and paying for private duty.

think you mean a home heath aid. unless your aunt is on a trach or needs some pretty invasive interventions a nurse would be overkill. You should call some of your local home health agincies. Medicare should defray some of the cost.

Id also talk with your aunt. She might be more comforatable living in an assisted liveing then having a stranger living in her home.

P.S. home heath aids can give any meds short of IV meds, in the home care setting

Homecare is a whole 'nother critter :)

"Live-In" usually means the caregiver can get a night's sleep. Otherwise how would s/he have the stamina to keep caring for the patient?

This month is our 30th anni for our own biz -- just us 2, 24/7 homecare. Always work together as a team so we can spell each other and thus one of us is always fresh on-duty for the patient. Lots of hospice cases. Family does not have to juggle different CGs coming and going :)

We no longer call our services Live-In, however, because by the time a family calls us, the patient needs assistance at night. Either monitoring because of confusion, or medication reminding, or CBGs, or help to the bathroom because of fall risks, or turning q2û, or skin integrity maintenance, or reassurance for anxiety, or trach suctioning, etc. We call it Work-In!

And that's 24-hr care, more expensive than "Live-In." After all, time is valuable, and one cannot actually sleep; only rest with senses alert for breathing changes, bells, sounds of pt trying to get up without notifying caregiver, etc.

Assisted Living, we have found, is not optimally appropriate for those patients with mobility, continence, or confusion issues, because their units have closed doors and they need to be able to ring for help -- and many of them no longer understand the safety need to alert their caregivers.

In any case, for homecare, be sure to get the Dr to order a homecare RN to oversee the patient and caregiving!