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Dignity in old age: caring for Johanna
Johanna, 88, needs daily care to stay at home, and the family is raising $1,350 for a carer and medicines.
🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany977 views
I'm caring for my mother, who's 88. After a fall and hip fracture Johanna can no longer manage alone. A nursing home would cost far more than we have, and Johanna desperately wants to stay at home.
I work 40 hours a week and have cut back to look after her, but we need a part-time carer.
Johanna worked all of her life as a schoolteacher, and raised 5 children. Now we're trying to give some of that care back.
Medication, a hospital bed and a carer for four months will make a huge difference.
Funds cover the carer's wages, medicines, a hospital bed rental and incontinence supplies.
Where the $1,350 goes:
• Mobility aids and bathroom adaptations: $380
• Medication and prescriptions: $610
• Hospital bed and mattress rental: $360
Every share and every dollar helps.
- Katharina
Updates from Katharina
Thank you all. We're at 17% now ($230). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.
- Daniel Chukwuemeka Nwachukwu 🇳🇬 · $68
- Safiatou Mariam Konaté 🇫🇷 · $100
- Sandra Cláudia Lopes 🇧🇷 · $5
- Teresa S. Robertson 🇬🇧 · $20
- Natalie L. Davidson 🇺🇸 · $5
“All the best. Been where you are, it gets better. - Hialeah”
- Jayanthi S. Rao 🇮🇳 · $5
“Stay strong. My sister told me about this one. - Rohini”
- Roman Lawson 🇬🇧 · $10
- Ana E. Muñoz 🇺🇸 · $25
- Min-ho Sang-hoon Noh 🇰🇷 · $15
“Best of luck. Thought of Johanna all day after reading this.”
- Nazia Laiba Warraich 🇵🇰 · $10
- Lucy Auma Onyango 🇹🇿 · $10
- Kemi Esther Uba 🇳🇬 · $5
- Seung-woo Ji-ho Song 🇰🇷 · $50
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $50
- In-ho Ki-tae Shim 🇰🇷 · $20
- Lily K. King 🇺🇸 · $10
- Bennett N. Neal 🇬🇧 · $75
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So sorry you're going through this, Katharina. Hope you get there. Blessings.
Keep going, Katharina. This could happen to any of us. We're a small family in Taguig but we're thinking of you. Blessings
Sending strength. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. My husband and I read this together. Love from Istanbul.