We are currently looking for a female in home care assistant to provide some in home care for our parents.
The basics are what we are looking for. What we need is someone to live in the home where you will have your own room that you can furnish yourself. You will have access and use of the kitchen, laundry room, living room, den, dining room, Wi-Fi, cable, food, family car (for appointments), basically the family home while you are there and caring for our parents. Plus pay.
Your responsibilities are simple. While in the home you would provide assistance for our parents.
This will include helping our mother with her morning shower (you would just be there if she needs help with anything while taking a shower and getting dressed). Once she has showered and dressed, she goes to the kitchen and cooks herself breakfast. Then once our father wakes up (which is usually a couple of hours later) you would help him start his day.
Our father requires a little more assistance when he wakes up. He's typical morning after he wakes is changing him out of his cloth's from the day before (shower(s), once or twice a week, before changing out of the day before cloths- your schedule for the showering), his morning walking exercise (that he does himself before sitting down for breakfast), Taking his MEDS (you just give them to him and he takes them), eating breakfast and then falling back to sleep in his chair. He also has a small set of exercises that he completes throughout the day. This morning routine typically takes less than 30 minutes unless it's shower day then a little longer.
After he has finished breakfast, he will be down for two or three hours on average. During this time, you can do a quick cleanup of the kitchen area, start up a load of laundry or prep cook food for our mom or if all is caught up, relax. Watch TV with mom or in another room. Read, surf the web, etc.
The basic day goes about as described above. During a typical day once you have completed the described above you would have a few things to do in prep for the rest of the day which might include laundry, clean up, house straightening, cooking food ahead for our mom. Our mom has a special diet, and the food is cooked ahead so that at a mealtime, like lunch or dinner mom can just grab a couple containers out of the fridge, cook the food and then eat.
Once the morning routine has been completed with a small amount of chores you would have free time to watch TV, surf the web, like I said before. You would just be hanging out until one of them might need something, You would have to wake our dad up, or when he wakes to use the restroom, get his daily exercise's completed, (if you knock them out first thing in the morning before breakfast, which takes about 30 minutes or less, you would/could have it done for the day.) Otherwise, it's just assisting them throughout the day. I have done this and after you get a routine down you can get it done pretty smoothly and quickly. Yes, sometimes it just doesn't work out but for the most part it does.
Other responsibilities would be taking them to appointments. You must have a valid driver’s license. When taking our parents to an appointment you would have use of the family car to get you and our parent(s) there and back. The car is insured and will be fueled. Once a week or every other week you will use the family vehicle to go to the local market and buy groceries. We have a list of foods that they eat, and you would just be replacing the food items that they have used. Also, while at the store you would be allowed to purchase food items for yourself for your meals. Since you would be responsible for keeping the house tidy you would also need to keep track of the cleaning supplies and replace as needed.
I have tried to put in this ad a generalization of not only what we are looking for but the responsibilities that we expect. This position for the most part is laid back. We don't expect you to work 24/7 even though you will be there during a set time, you will have free time. You most likely will not be woke up during the night and once you figure out a set routine and get a good flow you will have down times. I have been there and followed this routine and still had time to do other things between. Our parents are not in a place where they need full-time care, just some assistance and someone there in case they fall or forget to turn off a burner.
This position is for an in-home care assistant and includes: Your own room, heat, electric, Wi-Fi, cable service, landline phone (No Long Distance), washer & dryer, your meals, use of the family vehicle & fuel, and a base pay between $1,500.00-$1,800.00 a month (depending on experience).
We are not sure of the duration for this position and realize that someone moving in would be giving up their current home to take this position. The perfect candidate for this position would be an in-home care assistant who has just lost a client and moves from job to job or is looking to relocate to this area and is willing to live at our home until such time comes that your services are not needed. We would give you notice as advanced as possible when the time comes and would allow you to reside in the home for a short amount of time while you looked for another client, position and place to live. We would not just put you out on the street after helping us with our parents.
I have a scheduled list that outlines dad’s morning routine and describes his exercise’s that needs to be completed each day. I have also put together a food list of things that he likes to eat. He doesn’t eat big meals just small meals here and there and is not always hungry, but will snack if you just offer it up, lol.
I have also put together a food list for our mom and I have outlined most of what has been described in this ad on paper to help be a guideline for a care giver assistant. Once you get it figured out if you want to change it and refine it to yourself, that is fine, but I figured that some type of a format might help.
If this sounds like something that would work for you, and you are interested please respond to this ad. Thank You