About Rachel

I have 6 years of caregiving for my own grandmother with macular degeneration and lewy body dementia. Now working as a professional caregiver, I provide seniors with personal care, dressing, showering, incontinence care, light housekeeping, fun conversations, companionship, transportation to appts, encouraging exercise, assisting with physical therapy, shopping/errands, medication reminders, meal prep, stimulating and exciting activities like puzzle, word search and scrabble Experienced with seniors using wheelchairs, walkers, safe transfers with gait belts and slide boards, behaviors in dementia and alzheimer's and how to approach positively and effectively Cared for seniors with various health conditions such as stroke, parkinson's, brain tremors, debilitating leg and hip arthritis, bedsores, COPD, CIPD, cancer Familiar with taking blood pressure, pulse oximeter, controlling oxygen tank, applying contracture splint and cushions, setting up cold therapy machines