Caregiving Tasks
Our wonderful staff possess a huge range of skills, and each caregiver excels at a variety of tasks. We match our caregivers to the level of care and exact needs you express during our complimentary consultation. We match personalities as well!
Shifts: From four hours to around the clock. We assist seniors who only need a little help to those with overwhelming needs.
Note: Caregivers will not handle financial matters involving the client. They will, with family permission, make purchases from petty cash and note it on a Petty Cash Log along with receipts of all transactions.
1. Companion-Home Manager
- Prepare fresh nutritious meals
- Observe dietary special needs
- Remind to stay hydrated
- Exercise and take walks together
- Grocery shopping
- Vacuum and dust
- Clean kitchen
- Clean and sanitize bathrooms
- Organize closets and cabinets
- Make bed and/or change linen
- Laundry: wash, dry, fold, put away
- Ironing
- Record concerns
- Run errands
- Accompany to MD
- Supervision due to cognitive impairment
- Maintain calendar
- Remind about appointments
- Stay awake overnight
- Monitor, record and remind to take medications
- Help with clothing selection
- Companionship
- Conversation
- Scrapbook together
- Listen to favorite songs
- Play board games
- Read
- Crossword puzzles
- Arts and Crafts
- Cook together
- Watch favorite show, movies
- Pet care
- Mend clothes
- Answer the phone
- Retrieve mail
- Take out trash
- Pick up prescriptions
- Dine out
- Drive to visit family and friends
- Pick up dry cleaning
- Go to post office
- Attend church/synagogue services
- Document daily concerns for family member
- Apply lotion and lip balm
- Patient advocate at hospital
- Reminiscing
- Walks
2. In Home Aide
To the Companion-Home Manager tasks add:
- Assistance with bath or shower
- Assistance with dressing
- Assistance with feeding
- Oral Care: teeth brushing, denture care
- Hearing aids in and out and cleaned
- Grooming: hair washing, drying, combing and brushing; make-up application; nail care
- Take and record blood pressure, pulse and temp
- Record fluids and output; bowel management
- Work seamlessly with Hospice for comfort at end of life
- Exercise according to therapy directives
- Check blood sugar
- Toileting: bedside commode or bathroom
- Incontinence care / Changing adult briefs
- Skin Care: preventing pressure sores by keeping skin clean and repositioning every two hours
- Wheelchair transfers
- Safe ambulating with walker or cane
3. Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)
To all the above add the skills necessary to provide these extra services:
- Limited catheter care
- Wheel chair transfers which involve extensive weight bearing
- Ambulation which involves extensive weight bearing
- Ostomy care
- Apply anti-embolism stockings (TED hose)
- Respiratory assistance: oxygen and nasal cannula
- Wound care, change dressing
