Have to Work as Hard for Mom as I Do for Baby!
Posted by BViews on January 16, 2009
They say two year-olds are like teens, and that the elderly are like babies. Well, I would at least agree with the latter because I have to spend as much time checking into the references of the people taking care of my mom as I do for the people taking care of my toddler!
I’m not sure how much training people have to have to drop in to provide adult day care for your parents-you’d hope they’d have to have SOME home care training. I might have been grateful just for someone willing to pop in and play cards with her, but my mom is getting weaker and I never quite know when she’ll go downhill just enough to need more intensive care, and I’d rather have someone lined up now that she gets to know while she’s more cognizant. But just like you have to check for child abuse in a babysitter’s background, you need a background check on an elder-care giver as well. I was glancing over some elder abuse resources so I can recognizes it if it ever happens. The resources out there nowadays are fantastic! There are all kinds of products on home care provider training, for instance. And the retirement groups like AARP, VA, MediCare or MediCal and even Social Security really help out on how to access free services for the home bound. But, boy, they don’t make it easy to find! As a matter of fact, it was easier to do all this for the two year-old!
Dr. Rozno - Eldercare Coordinator said,
Great article! In many states you can take HHA classes in any licensed care giving agency and it would cost couple to few hundred dollars. Also many caregiver both licensed and experienced are available for direct hire at fraction of cost and with background check at http://www.choiceeldercare.org/caregivers/
Mike said,
Great post. I have a grandmother who has just celebrated her 90th birthday. Her husband passed away last year, and she wanted to stay in their home of fifty years. It took the family quite a while to find someone to assist her, we finally settled on a student at a local tech school. The student was studying to become a pharmacist. There are many agencies now that specialize in elderly care, I think it’s especially important to utilize them as they do the back ground checks and save you a lot of time.
HG1978 said,
I have a friend who has two kids under the age of five. In addition she has an elderly mother who is often in need of her help. Her mom does not live close by so it’s hard for her to arrange these things on the phone. In the past few years many companies have cropped up helping the elderly with everyday tasks and problems. My grandmother has a young student come over to her house three times a week to take her to the store or Dr.s appmnts. the entire family is grateful for this service, so that when we spend time with my grandmother it’s more quality time and not always running her around to errands.
Diabetes Care Center said,
From Hamlet comes the phrase, an old man is twice a child and I thought that it was appropriate for this post. I didn’t know that it could be that hard to find someone to care for your relatives.
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