Part Time
About who needs care: Mom has an osteo-arthritic knee which limits her mobility and can be uncomfortable to walk too far or to stand on it for too long, so she needs someone to be her legs to help with rides to doctors, shopping, cooking, cleaning, garbage day and laundry and ears to help hear phone conversations though she does have a captioned land-line that helps and also uses a smart phone for or that she sometimes needs help navigating or may need someone to take it to the company for solving a problem. She rides a motorized chair at the stores that have them and uses a cane or walker at home.
About the care needs: Mom has 3 children, 6 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren. Some live locally. She is very good with English (words/writing poems), was pretty good at playing bridge, had a career in advertising, has traveled to Europe and the Caribbean and around N. America a few times so she would appreciate someone who is a good listener and who also has interesting stories to share. She has taught me how to make recipes for seafood, potatoes, breakfast crepes, soups and dips and tries to maintain a less-red meat and less sodium and less sugary diet. She likes a wide variety of TV shows from news to sports to dramas and late night comedians. She has a keen sense of humor. I can train someone on how to reset or unplug/re-plug in the router/modem upstairs if the TVs/land-line phones go off of the internet. She is learning as I am as well how to input her appointments into the calendar app on her Android phone.
Services needed include: transportation, meal preparation, errands / shopping, light housekeeping, companionship, and mobility assistance.
