{"id":1050,"date":"2016-11-15T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T07:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/template.assistinghands.com\/?page_id=1050"},"modified":"2025-03-17T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:47:08","slug":"how-to-pay-for-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/massachusetts\/dedham\/services\/how-to-pay-for-care\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pay for Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols offset_small\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1562 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/03\/iStock-641867122-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/03\/iStock-641867122-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/03\/iStock-641867122-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/03\/iStock-641867122-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/03\/iStock-641867122-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/03\/iStock-641867122-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/03\/iStock-641867122.jpg 1561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nationwide in 2024, the average cost for non-medical home care is $33 per hour with the state averages ranging from $30 \u2013 $45 per hour. It should be noted that these are average costs from home care agencies. Private individuals can be retained to provide most of the same services with fees that are 20% \u2013 30% lower. However, these independents are typically uninsured, do not go through background checks and may be unable to provide alternatives in case they are not available to work on short notice.<\/p>\n<p>Private medical insurances, Long Term Care insurance, MassHealth and VA benefits are accepted to reduce the cost of non-medical care and certain Medicare programs can reduce the cost of skilled nursing care. Call us for more information! <a href=\"tel:(617) 224-0367\">(617) 224-0367<\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nationwide in 2024, the average cost for non-medical home care is $33 per hour with the state averages ranging from $30 \u2013 $45 per hour. It should be noted that these are average costs from home care agencies. Private individuals can be retained to provide most of the same services with fees that are 20% \u2013 30% lower. However, these...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1028,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions\/1563"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/134\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}