Monthly tab of old age care: $ 18,000. Can you cover, but how many others they don’t know?

Marian Senabe drives away from her home in South Pasadena to visit her 100-year-old mother in Gardena once a week or so early in the morning I talk about the difficult expenditure of the elders.

Senabe, retiring psychologist, said his self-esteem, loves the comfort of his home and does not want to enter Sinabe or his brother. Four years ago, Reiko Kobata had a lunch caretaker. As recently, after falling from illness with a pneumonia, there are times when a night caregiver is added.

Date tab, to go 13 hours, $ 320. Twelve night costs only costs less than $ 300, which brings daily value to $ 620.

Supplement up to up to $ 18,600 per month. When the unwanted night shift, the amount is almost part.

“Many people would not be able to afford this. But no more options without hiding them on the board and care area,” he was taking note of an email, and that can run several thousand dollars a month. “I’ve got to know people that have been able to quit their work … to take care of their childhood parent. It can easily remove all the money you save and your goods – not a good plan.”

In fact, it is a national problem, and the United States lasts after many developed countries at the time the total number of the world grows rapidly.

“Americans have been prepared for the challenges of caring for care,” the adviser at Wilben Institute, said “Care,” New PBS suspension. Organic order to learn, essential care is not covered by health insurance, “Many inner Americans are forced to gain poverty to get poverty.

And may not be the longest option, provided by the hatchet function on Cake It is Trump Administration and Congress.

As Zose Sun and drove south, I told him about my friend Morrie Markoffwho lived at 110. He was lucky to keep sufficient care in domestic care costing $ 14,000 per month. But he and his mother of Sunabe is not common. I also wrote A world’s 102 year old Paul Hult, who immediately burned his life in the sun after falling and needed domestic care.

Sunabe had column with a pencil in beauty on me on a sliced ​​paper, describing her mother’s care statistics. Kobata included social security, income from the hired goods he and her husband at the end, pensions, long-term maintenance and retirement consignment to cover the monthly year 18,600.

Reiko Kobata, 100, holds her picture in her 29 years in her home in Gardenena.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Kobata pays the agency it provides, and compensation, caregiver. By power, agencies that take much more. That can leave something closer to the small caregiver’s salary, which makes it difficult to rent many of them in the field of sensitive staff.

As a result, many carers are written down and worked for literature. That saves clients money, because there is no division with an agency. And many carers get a free room and board while at work, but they offer themselves by privacy and family.

Women from the Philippines – some who have a lawless form, others except – form a large part of staff in California. As I have reported, some of them share astronomy houses, and many are Living in fear of dismissal Currently due to Trump Adjustment Attendance.

So what we bear is the failure of a large community policy, and it is not like age – begins for decades – may surprise. California Community Policy Center for 2040 projects, the number of 65 Californians and above will beat 9 millionrepresenting the 22% of the population, from 14% by 2020.

For more requirements, additional families will turn to the most common of the cultural rituals. They will take care of their own, live together, miscarriage and hope that when a need arises, they will not be distracted in medical care.

Sunabe has gone out of the 110 road and drives on the field roads where he used to go to school. When we approached the family at home, he told me that his mother would still write down checks for his debts, but not only following the cost of his care.

“At one point you will ask, ‘Why do all this money go on?'” Said Senabe.

Sunabe parked in the house and grew up. His parents bought about 65 years ago for $ 13,000, where Harold Kobata worked as a chemical engineer with his wife serving as a teacher’s office and his wife.

Kobata went into the living room with the Walker’s assistance, but otherwise it seemed to be a good spiritual health and better spirits. His grandson, who lives with his grandmother when he worked as sushi Chef in a nearby restaurant, and he changed.

Reiko Kobata looks at the picture booklet that his family has made his 100 birthday in the last room of his family in Gardenena.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Kobata stayed free sofa against family photos. He told me she enjoyed the morning of neighboring morning and would like to distribute the la Times each day and read the paper, before. You are inclined to play in his garden, playing a solitaire on his computer, following the Dodgers and has a favorite player – Shehei Ohtani.

I told Kobata he didn’t look 100.

“How do you feel?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” he said. “How should you feel?”

He thought about it and said he was feeling about 90.

We had a good visit, we walk two hours, but I don’t want to keep the kobata from his nap. When riding returned to South Pasadena, Sunabe said her mother’s condition invited time, but she wondered about a broad society.

“If you are in the house for a long time, so long that you don’t want to get out of it because you are free and familiar, then you may have a good luck,” she said. “And if you have dropped or moving into a more society, you will solve the disapproval problem and a financial care.”

That is the way of other people, and unpaid assistance from relatives or friends, and a The State Program provides limited care of low-income residents and adults.

But no solutions are simple or cheap, according to Irving and UCLA Professor Meritus Fernando Torres-Gilobserved in “care” in caring “and said when he was asked to care for Old Care, answered two words:” Organized. “

In the middle of the last century, Torres-Gil said, US invested in the center care, which allowed “a large benefit industry to be caught.” Some countries may invest in community-based care and home, including Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.

“We are behind the curve,” says Irving. “It is the only improved country … Without all health care system, leading to the chronological process, leading levels of brief disease and life programs and nurses and nursing homes are not available for the majority of Americans.”

The end of hope, for humanity, can be the age of Agrony. As many people and many resign, policies can get the costs of ignoring their crying.

Steve.lopez@latimes.com