It’s a good day when Frank Lee, a retired chef, can slip out to the hardware store, fairly confident that his wife, Robin, is in the hands of reliable help.
He struggled to care for her largely on his own.
“As Mom’s condition got more difficult to navigate, he was just handling it,” said Jesse Lee, the youngest of the couple’s three adult children.
“It was getting harder and harder.”“Something had to change, or they would both perish.”Frank Lee’s search for trustworthy home health aides — an experience that millions of American families face — has often been exhausting and infuriating, but he has persisted.
He didn’t entirely trust the care his wife would get in an assisted-living facility.
Persons:
Frank Lee, Lee, ”, Jesse Lee, ” Frank Lee’s, —
Locations:
Palms, Charleston, S.C