Companion Care Needed For My Mother In Grand Junction

About the job

About who needs care: Mom loves bird-watching and gardening. She gets outside to exercise fairly regularly - she likes walking, hiking, and pickleball. She also enjoys going to coffee with her brothers, sister, and friends. She also loves meeting new people and is very interested in learning about other cultures and countries; (she lived in Brooklyn for 2 years, helping to raise her first born granddaughter, and one of the things she loved best about her church there was the diverse background of the congregation). She has 9 grandchildren who she adores, and who adore her. She speaks some Spanish and enjoys practicing it with native speakers to improve her skills. About the care needs: Someone energetic, positive, open-minded, and fun would be a great fit for mom. She doesn't respond well to gruff, authoritarian types - she is very warm and friendly and will do well with a caretaker that has a similar disposition. As one might imagine, she is not thrilled to be experiencing cognitive decline - so anything that resembles scolding or an exasperated tone when she has forgotten something stresses her out and causes her to withdraw a bit. Also, her caregiver should not be someone who espouses racist, anti-immigrant, or otherwise intolerant views. This point probably should go without saying - but I do know that mom would not feel comfortable working with someone who is significantly more closed-minded, (or for lack of a better word, culturally conservative) than she, so it bears noting. Services needed include: companionship.