does thai familes use nursing home?

[villageidiotY2K]

Hello people, im curious to know does thai families use nursing home services?

as far as i know, most of them takes care of their elderly (i think they are living together), and i often see them wheel chairing to restaurants and even overseas trip....omg)

can foreigners use these services? im not sure these care takers can communicate in english or whatnot. and i certainly dont want see them abusing the elderly. 

 

anyone or anyone u know use these nursing services in thailand and whats ur expereinces and prices if u dont mind sharing.

[Lacessit]

I have heard of two in Chiang Mai, one in Hang Dong which is about 45,000 baht/month, another off the 118 which is 90,000 baht/month.

 

Some affluent families hire live-in retired nurses, who have to quit government hospitals at age 45. I understand they are 15,000 - 20,000 baht/month.

[3NUMBAS]

Getting guys to work at night always a prob 

[howerde]

In Bangkok, in middle class families they hire nursing care for the most, their children have jobs and their own families(they drop in daily) , the cost varies and the standard varies, my partners mother needed H24 care after an operation, through an agency they hired someone for 25 000. after 2 weeks she was sacked, if no one was around she basically stopped working and would do nothing she was asked to do, but when someone was around she would appear to help, though it was quite clear she had no nursing skills let alone training, from a more established firm the cost was 125 000 baht a month for 24 hour( not sure what nursing skills they had) fortunately her mother improved enough so care is not needed at the moment

The worker was entitles to a daily food allowance think it was 50 baht, remember most of these  people have no qualifications or experience, and there are a lot of Myanmar people employed in this filed, it is the same the world over who wants a job of looking after a strangers  elderly parents