My Personal Caregiver had to retire and I haven't had a Worker for almost a Year now. I have to rely on Family Members to help with My Laundry and Housekeeping, or it just doesn't get done because I'm not able to do it anymore. It's very Frustrating to see things that need to be done and know that I can't do it. I try to do some of it sometimes and then I'm down for a week.
It seems like they can't get any dependable workers because they don't pay much, or because people just don't want to work nowadays.

gosh, you nailed it by saying “nightmare”

I’m in Tennessee and get nursing care, and personal assistant care paid for by the state. Seems to me, there needs to be bigger talks to get better programs that pay decent wage. my assistants make $17.15/hr.

15 years ago I looked at how I would obtain caregivers. I would need to spin down my meager assets to less than 2k. Smart ones move to California where state actually cares. All options in US unless you have money sucked. So Ioved to colombia s. America 27x7 caregiver $22 a day, physical therapy session $5.

Colombians are found all over Europe prov8ding caregiver services. They are not up tight stressed out gringos.

Move!

I live Maryland which has a fairley substantial cost of living. From what I gleamed from my longest caregiver, he just got a raise of a quarter to a little over $15 an hour...new employee is paid substantially less.