The Home Care Guide: Cost of Care: Home Care Aides
Ronnie Friedland
Care.com Editor
- Care Options: Home care aides
- Cost of Care: Home Care Aides
- Hiring a Home Care Aide: Contracts, interviews and more
- Evaluating Your Home Care Aide
In this article
- Identify needs
- Identify providers who can meet those needs
- Find out what those providers will cost
- Figure out what you can afford
Once you have clarified your in-home care needs, you'll then be able to identify providers and learn what the costs would be for each provider.
Of course, having family, friends or volunteers provide the service would be less expensive than hiring an agency or individual care provider.
- According to MetLife in 2007, the average hourly cost of a home care aide worker was $19 per hour.
- In some states the surveyed rate was as high as $30 per hour and as low as $9 per hour.
Under certain strictly defined conditions your health insurance company will cover the cost of home care. You will have to check with your health insurance company or with the home care agency to assess the particulars of your case.
Ronnie Friedland is an editor at Care.com. Previously she edited InterfaithFamily.com and JewishFamily.com. She has co-edited three books: The Mothers' Book: Shared Experiences (Houghton Mifflin), The Fathers' Book: Shared Experiences (Hall), and The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook (Jewish Lights).
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