I am now providing in home care for an elderly woman with altimers (sp). I am receiving free room and board and food but I would like to know what if any salary should be included. I do all the house work, cooking, laundry and day to day care for this woman.

My mother is 90 years old and in excellent health except for having broken her hip in March. She needs help with bathing, laundry, meal preparation and a few day to day things. We are looking to hire someone for a couple of hours a day for 5 days of the week. What should we expect to pay for that kind of care? She lives in a rural area of South Carolina.

So I have a great aunt who lived in a retirement community in South Texas. She was at least 10 years older then anybody else there and decided that maybe it was time for a little bit of help. She decided to move back to Illinois closer to the family to something similar to an assisted living facility. They cook her meals, do her laundry, and things like that even though she is still totally capable. As it turns out though, those things that occupied her time now no longer do, she is bored, and wants to go back to Texas. At 90 years old she has fallen a few times but as I mentioned is fully capable (no broken bones, no mental disease, none of it – still drives even).

We’re trying to locate a place for her other then her own home that’s a little less in to what she’s doing now. Is there any type of place where there’s somebody nearby to check on you and they’d help you with those things if you wanted, but if you dont they’d stay out of your hair. She’s just not at the point she needs full blown assisted living, but independent living isn’t quite either. Is there anything in between? Help! Please!