Experienced caregivers are incredible. And expensive, but worth it.
We started off by being completely unwilling to accept how my mother was losing her abilities. In hindsight, we should have gotten her a medical alert button way earlier. Eventually we started sending a helper every day to my mother's own house, then moved her to a full-assist home. Then hospice, then death.
It's difficult to plan in advance for these things. The only way to get reduced-cost services (in the US) is for the parent/s to become legally destitute and then each state is different on what services they offer (if any).
We started off by being completely unwilling to accept how my mother was losing her abilities. In hindsight, we should have gotten her a medical alert button way earlier. Eventually we started sending a helper every day to my mother's own house, then moved her to a full-assist home. Then hospice, then death.
It's difficult to plan in advance for these things. The only way to get reduced-cost services (in the US) is for the parent/s to become legally destitute and then each state is different on what services they offer (if any).