Is it too infrequent to request a home health aide who stops by once a week?

No, it is not too infrequent. Many aides will have several clients. Call an agency or put out an ad and look for one you like. Good luck!

That sounds like a perfect schedule. You seem well organized and able to use the prepared food wisely.
Try it for a month. If you like the person you can always ask for more frequent visits.

I think two to three times a week might be more helpful to you. What will your insurance pay or allow visit wise? How comfortable are you with someone coming in your home?
I love long hair.

Sounds perfectly frequent enough to me.
(If I understand you right, you would like to have an aide visit you once per week?)
Anyway, I think in your situation (and I think this in general) you can ask for whatever you feel like.
It’s for the other party to answer it.
Poor you, I can almost count the people that have suggested you to cut your hair…

Once per week visits are very common. The frequency of visits are recommended by your doctor.

@chyna I am of Puerto Rican descent, so I wash my hair once a week. It does not get oily like Caucasian hair does, and need to be washed frequently.

@rebbel I am yet unmarried, and although my face is pretty, I value my hair as my prize. My face looks strange with shorter hair [I cut it after my divorce a few years ago].

@everyone I was just worried that my request was too little.

@luckyguy yes! I love to cook and these tremors make being in the kitchen an all day affair for one meal. I use the slow cooker often, rice cooker most, cast iron frying pan [weight] and two. Heavy saucepans the most. I get around.

Why do some mentions work and others do not?

And omgoodness I will have been here 10 years this coming February. It is always great to celebrate a decade on a website.

@squirbel. I remember you well! Good to see you. I too understand your question to mean that is all you need and will you be able to find someone for that. It sounds like yes.

Keep us in mind.

@janbb hi and hello! And thank you for stopping by.

It should be workable with a once a week stop in by an aide.

I took cooking classes at a community college and the instructor was a personal chef. He would go to a customer’s home and prep and cook a week’s worth of food and place it in their freezer or refrigerator once a week. He was bonded and insured, they would give keys to house if they weren’t home. Maybe once in a while, treat yourself to a personal chef visiting

I’m actually astonished that you feel an aide’s weekly visit sufficient. But that hair to the tailbone situation vexes me no end. Is your M S about recurring episodes separated by “normal” periods?

@stanleybmanly I am unable to handle knives with my dominant hand, as I have postural tremors in that hand. If you do not know what postural tremors are, I may end up cutting myself or throwing the knife [search YouTube for hand postural tremor].

My left hand cannot really cut beyond slicing a dinner roll. These tremors are managed by medicine but are not gone, and my hand is not steady enough for a knife. I do not even eat with a knife and a fork; I request my steaks to be precut for me, etc.

This is why I primarily need the aide.

Yes, I have recurring/remitting multiple sclerosis.

I used to assess Medicaid patients who had a home health (“personal care”) aide, in order to determine the amount of time they’d get on a daily or weekly basis. I’d go visit them with a public health nurse and interview them.

Most people would want three hours per day minimum for a minimum of two days per week but if you want less, it ultimately depends on what your insurance will pay for.

In the County I work in, Medicaid is very generous with this service.

There are those who’re only looking for partime work, like 1 day a week too. Hopefully you’ll find one who lives not to far from you.