Part Time
Seeking care for my father in his 80s. Services needed: companionship, bathing / dressing, meal preparation, medication prompting, mobility assistance, light housekeeping. Looking for someone with 3+ years of experience caring for seniors. Specialized care needs: CPR/first aid training, nursing experience, support for memory care. Female caregiver preferred. A little more about my father: he can be anxious, pleasant. My father just lost his wife. He has a lot of trouble with short term memory. He is mobile and uses a cane but his balance is not good. He needs help with showering but he is able to go to the bathroom. He needs someone who can reassure him that he is not alone. He may forget who the caregiver is after being introduced and will forget that we have left; therefore, the caregiver will have to remind him. I'm looking for someone who is patient, quiet. We would like someone respectful and quiet who is comfortable perhaps being with him without intruding much. Also someone who takes initiative and makes sure he has eaten and taken his medications. We need someone who can help him get dressed. My father sleeps a lot but we need someone who will hear him if he wakes and calls for someone. We need a kind sensitive person who will explain to him that everything is okay and repeat the same answers because he will forget he already asked the same question.
