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Dignity in old age: caring for Mateusz
Mateusz, 92, needs daily care to stay at home, and the family is raising $2,400 for a carer and medicines.
🇵🇱 Gliwice, Silesia, Poland679 views
I'm caring for me, who's 92. After a fall and hip fracture Mateusz can no longer manage alone. A nursing home would cost far more than we have, and Mateusz desperately wants to stay at home.
I work 30 hours a week and have cut back to look after him, but we need a part-time carer.
Mateusz worked all of his life as a shopkeeper, and raised 4 children. Now we're trying to give some of that care back.
Medication, a hospital bed and a carer for six months will make a huge difference.
Funds cover the carer's wages, medicines, a hospital bed rental and incontinence supplies.
Where the $2,400 goes:
• Hospital bed and mattress rental: $220
• Part-time carer (six months): $2,100
• Mobility aids and bathroom adaptations: $80
Glad we found this place.
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Is hospital bed and mattress rental the biggest cost or is there more coming?
Everything on the list is an amount I've been quoted or invoiced. hospital bed and mattress rental comes first ($220) and I'll update the page as each thing gets paid. Ask me anything else.
Hope it all works out, Mateusz. Gave what I could, wish it was more. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
Good luck, Mateusz. Looking forward to the next update. Love from Anaheim.