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My husband has multiple myeloma and receives monthly maintenance care, injections and pills, to keep the cancer inactive. He is now in the intermediate stages of dementia and is sleeping much of the time, has more memory loss and struggles with ADLs. We live with our daughter's family and I do the majority of the caregiving. Looking towards summer travel plans, I will probably need either some in-home help or respite care and the day is approaching where full time care will be needed. 2nd floor bedroom and other fall dangers if nothing else.I've asked the oncologist to evaluate what will happen with the cancer progression if we have to stop treatment. At some point I will not be able to transport him to the hospital for treatment.Can anyone share a similar situation? I hate to stop the cancer treatment but it may be very difficult to translate to assisted living.

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You can start looking at Caregiving Agencies in your area. Start with a few hours a week and see how that goes.
The next step would be to find out how much the cost would be to have a caregiver 24/7 for the length of time you would need. then compare that to the cost of what a Respite stay would be in a facility near by.
Most facilities will do a Respite stay and I am sure many of the people (or families) that use them for Respite will select that facility when their LO needs 24/7 care that can not be managed at home.
I am one that firmly believes in the Quality of life is more important than the Quantity of life.
Keep in mind that depending on how things go Assisted Living may not be an option and he may require Skilled Nursing facility.
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