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My dad's dementia care costs $9,000 a month. I'm selling my parents' home to pay for it.

Business Insider·Noah Sheidlower·17 days ago
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Keith Pavlick has been caring for his parents as their health has declined. Keith Pavlick Keith Alan Pavlick, 53, is moving his parents into assisted living, which will cost $9,000 monthly. Pavlick's father has dementia, and Pavlick estimates memory care will cost $14,000 monthly. The caregiving and long-term care experience has taken up every second of Pavlick's life. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Keith Alan Pavlick, 53, who works as a real estate agent in Orlando. Pavlick plans to sell his parents' home by next month and move his parents into an assisted living community, which will cost about $9,000 monthly, not including insurance or other medical costs. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. There's a lot more than just the dementia diagnosis . There are a lot of things people don't think about that occur right around the time of a diagnosis, when the elderly person has accumulated bills that they didn't need or bought things that just take up space.…

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