I have a personal care assistant and it is free for the time being, unless my state or the government of the USA falls apart, so I am hoping it doesn't. They shuffled people in and out until they sent an amazing woman that is very close to me now. She only gets paid $8 an hour from her service provider and is 65. I try to make it easier for her to clean up after my roomate and myself, and we just had a cooking problem. Now I have gained ten pounds thanks to her, for better or worse, she cooks great meals. The house is clean, I am less worried and my family calls my disability a weakness of spirit and life of luxury off the government even though they live in large houses and have yards and can buy a new car whenever they want. They are a great irritation but the personal care assistant and me have poverty in common so it is a great chemistry. She loves the disabled and I think of her as an angel with a lot of wisdom that comes with age.

I would look into state medicaid programs that offer personal care assistants and not pay that exhobortant amount of money. We barely need her 8 hours a week. It runs about 7-8 hours a week, four days a week to cook and clean our apartment. The rest of the time we talk and smoke, as I have nine and she wants the hours and that's part of their job to offer company. I couldn't have asked for anything better from the government because I was not trained in vacuuming, cooking and all of this business when I was little but I feel more prepared for it if they ever cut the services because of budget shortalls.