How much per year to budget for a live in helper?

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Mum has savings and (for now) is sprightly but the hips and knees are going
am trying to work out how much its likely to cost to hire an (Agency) home help who will start as housekeeper and end up as nurse ...

We're just looking at this for my parents - he is struggling with care responsibilities (and shopping, cooking, household stuff etc etc) for my Mum who has cancer and is being treated palliatively.
Costs for the agency we're looking at for a live in care/housekeeper are £700 per week or thereabouts. Huge.

Huge, but only 2/3 of what other family members paid in the USA so actually well within the number I had in my head.
Cheers for that info.

Do they really need to live in ?

My mum is in her ninties ,has practically no sight ,congestive heart failure and AF ,stage 3 kidney failure ,leg ulcers and bandaged fingers due to gout .She can walk ,though is unsteady .

She lives alone and barely tolerates me visiting .She hates the idea of carers .
So I have spent a lot of time and energy trying to set things up so that she is safe ( ish ) living on her own .

She has a pendant alarm .

With live in carers you can't really just have one can you ?
Who would cover them for time off and sickness ?

You might be better off looking at a flat in an extra care place - you can be totally independant, but buy in care as and when it is needed, either short or long term. The places also have stuff like a restaurant, bar, and staffed 24 hours so its there if you need it, but encourages as much independance as possible

Yes - good suggestion CMOT .
Tho I guess it might depend on what they themselves want .

Oh, absolutely, but just a different idea to think on. My gmil had both hips replaced (one twice), both knees and a shoulder, and lived on her own till she died at 92 with just carers twice a day in her last year. At about 80 she'd moved to a little one bed bungalow on a sort of elderly estate where there were all these bungalows and a central block with rooms for those who could no longer cook etc and with activities. It really revived her as there were all these ladies of similar ages with time to chat, no worry of doing any maintenance or gardening (though she could if she wanted), stuff to go and do if you wanted (she was doing computer lessons at 90), and a warden who popped round once a day. Never really alone, but enabled independance

I think if it were me that's definitely what I'd go for !

Actually sounds quite attractive at the minute