The Senior Care Guide: A Printable PDF

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it time give something back to the one who gave so much.they work heard for what they have,why not do in home caregiver.i love helping our senior to live at home. one day i will need some help. this is why we are here let us help them with love and care,

Thanks for everything god bless you all.

Carolyn Taylor

Mercy Q. To take care of my family the same thing to care the senior citizens needs. Comfort them, support their daily needs, give them a tender loving care. I like being a family to them.

I have done 18 yrs + with Dementia and Alzheimer caregiving. Every person is different with each step they acheive and those who don't do so well, they too keep smiling. They give me more strenght, courage, and insight to what's going through their mind and I love them more than myself. They have the best outlook on life and they enjoy every minite of it. My mom is 81 yrs old on oxygen 24/7 and lives with me and my husband. While I do work and stay some overnights, my clients love my mom and once a week we get together for a nice pleasant visit. I'm truely blessed for all the love I give and receive. My huband is an angel and he too loves all my cleints and is always thei to lend a helping hand or just to listen. He's my best friend.
Bev O. Florida

Doris S.
I was a Home Health Aide.
Being a Health Aide .
Has its rewards.
Knowing your giving a senior care and affection.
Hopefully when the day should arrive .
I need someone to care for me at home.
There will be someone available to care for me.
I enjoy being a Home Health Aide.
Especially working in a private home.

I am glad there are alternate places for our loved ones to receive quality care

Greetings to you.
I think that is so special of others to help assist those in need. I have been doing nursing assistant work for more than 20 years. Many loved ones in my care has passed on with illnessses such as H.I.V., Cancer and had been assisted under hospice care. May God Bless you to continue to make sure the need of others are well respected.
Regina James

seniors dont like being teated like they are babies. they need respect and kindness .and like being included in conversation and sosial affairs. just like when the were young. they dont feel any different inside.they are still the same people. truely a CAREGIVER Lucy Bianchi

I have been a geriatric care manager for over 25 yrs, I am a certified as a Social Services and Recreational Director employed by skilled nursing facilities. I have also worked as a Medical Assistant and Nursing Assistant. I have always enjoyed caring for the elderly, and now work as an independent in-home caregiver. My last client was a lovely woman named Betty, We became very close, and Betty was more then just a client, she was my friend and I thought of her as my mother. Her son re-married and Betty had to relate to another city. I call her weekly, and miss her.

Often caregivers become very attached to their clients, and it is difficult when you loose them. An experienced caregiver learns they must remain professional in all situations, even if it means having to let go. Caregivers are not in this profession for the BIG money. We work and give from our hearts, and often we are underpaid it is difficult to put a price on compassion and trust.

Today is first day at this site. I enjoyed the comments of the caregivers. I mainly signed up to find a care giver for my Dad but I see this site has a lot of valuable info. I can learn from. I feel very alone with the full responsabilities of my Dad. BK

Does anyone know an internet site that you can buy incontinence items at reasonable prices? If you can help, Thanks

I would like to work as a caregiver , I have five years of experience,I usually work with a man but he passed away for a couple months ago. I usually work in a nursing home.

Hello everyone, I would like to work as a caregiver. Can everyone tell me where and what site?..I live here in campbell..
Thanks.

i would like to work as a care giver .i work in nursing home and one to one.and i am looking for same job now.

I have been taking care of my mom for 3 1/2 years now by myself 24/7 and I'm starting to feel a little worn and just need a bit of a break. This past week has really taken a lot out of me with the death of a very good friend and my daughter is getting married down in LA?? My daughter was going to get married a couple of months ago but I was very hurt and sad that I wouldn't be able to see my only daughter get married?? so she waited. Well now be careful what u wish for cause now she's getting married on the TV show bridezilla :-) It's going to be a blast but now I found out I need to be there next Monday to really do all the fun things with her and my problem is what to do with my mom?? I cannot bring her cause she's now at the point where travel is to hard on her?? I looked into a few things but I cant believe how expense it is?? When my jouney is over with my mom, I swear I'm go to open a place or go around just helping people with there loved ones and not take them for every cent they have. Well any suggestions???

I HAVE BEEN TAKING CARE OF MY GRANDMOTHER FOR 6 YEAR NOW BY MYSELF.I WOULD LOVE THIS JOB

Hope,Love,Lauth..Life is Beautiful.God Bless you all

think you so mutch

Caring for the elderly is the best job in the world.It is so rewarding and you get to learn a lot from them.They become like a parent to you and watch out for you and love you just like you love them.It is the most wonderful feeling to know you can make a difference in somebody else life and make them happy.I Love caregiving and wished I could work every day of the week.Betty B

Caring for the elderly needs special skills ranging from being a good listener, patient, kind, sensitive to their needs and communicate with them so they are not feeling alone and lonely. Taking them for a walk when necessary and give them a sense of comfort, hope and a piece of mind where. jdouglas

Life is one adventure

THE TIME WE ARE GIVEN AS IVE BEEN TOLD IS A TRUE GIFT

Ommunities pull together in a time of change- one is added to a family,another passes on

Barriers of education,finances,communication delimmas are issues I fight to overcome daily

Perhaps through many opportunties to work with families through Care.com I come to terms with the value of literacy,education,experience

Take yourselves to a good movie TODAY
Listen to some MUSIC
KISS & HUG your loved ones

MAKE A NEW FRIEND!
Create an extended family!
Perhaps the footprints of a lifetime are created
ONE DAY AT A TIME

I work as a CNA and caregiver. I am also a Yoga enthusiast and instructor and would love to enhance caregiver's lifes with Yoga support classes. What are some of you readers opinion on this. Do you share my opinion about the needed care for caregivers considering the little time (if any)they have for themselves and feeling exhausted and drained.Something to 'recharge' them.
I appreciate your feedback on this. Thanks. :)

I work has a HHA and I find it very rewarding, you come across all diffeent types of people, some with mental problems, or with MS, and Dementia or Alzhemier. If I could put a smile on the elderly that it is all worth it. They are always put on the back burner and I think that is so wrong.

I lost my grandparents at a young age and never got to take care of them or really get to know them and what it was like at my age. I worked in a retirement/rehab facility for four years with my friends mother. we never got along when me and her daughter was in school, but when she had to be put in this rehab for a broken hip; we got really close. I stayed by her side until she passed away doing volunteer work at this site. I met some really great and interesting people at this facitlity. You just dont relize what these elderly people go through on a day to day basis. you would be really suprised how there family members don't make time to come an visit with them on a daily, weekly, or some of them not even monthly basis. It broke my heart to see them all alone so it made me relize that I have a job to do in keeping these people as comfortable as I could and how much just "saying hello, how are you today; and not be there to poke and pry on them with needles and pills. I really miss them and will be glad to get the chance to start working with elderly patients again, but this time being a Medical Assistant graduate.

What I like about being a CNA , health care provider/ dialysis technician are the rewards. Making patients laugh aand helping them to feel better and loved is important to me. I work a dialysis clinic . I used to work in a nursing home for eight

caregiving is such a rewarding job. Knowing that you are making a difference in a persons life and you always know you are appriciated. I love building relationships and hearing the stories and memories of my friends! :)

I am a compassionate, dependable ,mature caregiver with twenty-four years combined with special needs bus driver. over five years experience providing one on one care for elderly woman who recently pass away.

I love working with older people. I have worked with the elderly for 25 years off and on. Every home that I have been in treated me, like I one of the family. People are very appreciative of the way that you treat their loved ones. Today it is so hard to spend time with your family that is sick, and be able to spend time and work and still be with your family at home. That is where care givers come in and help to make the transitions easier. And to help families that just need a break. It takes a very special to be a care giver. It takes compassion and love like they are your family.

Hell0 I would like to apply to become a caregiver, sit help with house work, shop if needed. thank you I am on care.com

Hi, I to would like to apply to become an elderly caregiver. I cared for my mother for 3 years in my home. I missed her so much, I volenteered at a thrift store that had women working who were in their mid 70'and up. From there I worked at a senior center, and appreciate each one, some of who are in wheel chairs.

Yes The ladies are correct when they say caregiving is REWARDING! I have done this work for quite a long time. And I have loved evry minute of it! The client I have now I have had for almost 8 years. and yes it will hurt like the dickens when she passes! She is like my Aunt and my Granny and my Mom all rolled into one Sweet package! I dont know what I would do without her and she says she wouldnt know what to do without me!I tell myself never get attatched! But I cant help myself, I love them all! And I love this work!

Hi fellow caregivers, my question is that, what do I charge a man and his wife for sitting with his 87 yeaar young wife when neede, while the husband has appointments etc.? she is in a wheelchair, I do not have to bath her,but also do light houskeeping

I would think 5.00 to 10.00 $ per hour.

I have many years of experience in patient and senior care. I most enjoy working with the seniors. I love listening to their stories and find that they are very wise. It give's me a sense of pride helping them keep their pride and dignity. I understand how important it is to make them feel like they mean just as much as the next person. They also deserve to live life to the fullest.

Hi Everyone, caregiving to me is really rewarding & I love my job doing it. I come from a very small family so when I take care of you I treat you as my family. God Bless

Hi everyone I began my career as a Certified Nurse Assistant in 1997. I have enjoyed every patient that I ever cared for. I am a Certified Medication Technician and a Substitute Teacher in Bladen County (6yrs.), Cumberland County (4yrs.) and Robeson County (15yrs.), when time permits. I am so passionate about these 3 jobs. I have been on Care.com for sometime now seeking a good job. Now I am working on my Bachlors Degree in Criminal Justice and Human Services. I also love live-in jobs too.If

Enjoyed reading the comments. I have special empathy for seniors whose health prevents them from living independently. They deserve to be treated with love and understanding

Health-care is (to me) one of the greatest rewards in life. To all
of my patients (past and present)--THANK-YOU.... For the joy, the love
and yes,even the tears... Each and every one of you are part of my life.

I enjoy working with seniors. They have lived their lives in lanes we may never know, and now they are living it in a different lane. They are changing lanes, they are now in a slower lane but they are still in the race. We are to respect them and love them, it is their gift to us when we care for them, to listen to them and learn things that can never be taught in books. They are full of life stories, their goals that were set and met, their children and grandchildren, pets and just about everything you can think of to talk about. We all should take this as an experience to learn and grow, no matter what age we are. I am 58 years old and we are never too old to learn new things and hear a story from someone who has been there before. LIFE LESSONS are truly what you make them. Enjoy life, theirs and yours.

I am retired, but want to help our Seniors, they give so much to us when we are young.I remember hearing my Grandparents talk about their lives as young people, what they did for fun. They always said its all we had to do, (with a smile on their face).I love to here our Seniors stories, they are great teachers. You can see their enjoyment and how much it means for someone to listen to them. I'm in my early sixties and I enjoying telling my Grandsons about my childhood.
I would love to help care for your loved one in their own home where they are
comfortable. The longer they can stay home the happier and healthier they are.

I love senior pleope IM working for 5years is the best experience in my life.

I recently became a CNA and I'm looking to forward start working in this field as I work on becoming a RN.

I am a mature senior care giver, still caring for my mom for over twenty years. I have worked as a CNA and medical assistant caring for seniors in nursing homes, in home health care and assisting doctors in geriatrics as well. I find caring for seniors both challenging and rewarding. It takes a lot of heart, love and patience to care for seniors especially in nursing homes. I rather see a senior person spend the last years of his/her life at home instead of a nursing home. They feel more independent and more like a person not a patient or a resident. Also, believe seniors last longer at home with proper home health care than being institutionalized. I was once told by a resident in a nursing home that she felt like a "caged bird" which really broke my heart. And that she had become a burden for her children after she had raised them... This is why I enjoy taking care of seniors at home. If possible, as long as the person can handle being at home, it's the best choice. It's hard to let go of their homes, memoirs, memories and their true identity. I feel a senior has the right to spend his/her last years at home in order to live and part with diginity. Well, as long as he/she can help it taking into consideration the medical condition. Most of all, I love to see senior couples stay together in their homes like love birds. Sometimes, a nursing home or hospice is the best choice if medical care is needed 24/7.
I really enjoy taking care of seniors at home vs. nursing home. It is truly rewarding seeing someone maintain his/her dignity and independence staying at home. Consider, it's even less expensive for medical insurance plans. That is how I would like to be when I grow older. My adult children already know about this. I still care for my own mother at home who has some health issues, and still refuse to place her in a nursing home to this day...
Best regards and love to all the senior care workers whether in home health care or nursing homes. In absence of their children and grand children, we sometimes become the caring relatives wihout losing our professionalism, of course. It's always healthy to maintain the distance. They deserve all my love and respect. Regards :)