Going through an in-home caregiver service has a lot of appeal to it because of the professional training that services provide their caregivers. This is something that an independently employed caregiver might have, but there’s no guarantee of this. Anyone can put on ad online or in the newspaper saying that they will be a caregiver. You might even be able to get a good price on such a caregiver. However, you can never be sure what you’re actually paying for when you do something like this. You might get a great caregiver, or you might get someone who’s just looking to make a few easy dollars. Which would you rather entrust an elderly loved one with?
This is why it’s so important that if you are going to have someone help provide in-home care for your parent or grandparent that you go through a professional care service. Instead of testing your luck, you will know that your caregiver has been properly trained and had a background check.
Some people have concerns about going with a larger service, though. For example, many people legitimately worry about continuity of care when they go with a service. What’s to stop a large service with many caregivers to choose from from sending a different caregiver to help your parent out every week? Unfortunately, some services do this because of high turnover amongst their employees or other reasons. If you are going to hire a professional in-home care service to assist with your family, you will want to inquire about this potential issue before you make any sort of commitment.
Ideally, you want a service that will ensure that you have the same caregiver coming into your home every time that a caregiver is scheduled to be there. This helps your parent to have a caregiver who knows them and their needs more thoroughly, and it also helps your mom or dad to bond more closely with the person who is providing that care. When this occurs, the caregiver is less a strange person invading their privacy, and more of a trusted companion who is coming over for a visit and to help them with a few tasks.
We know that things happen and caregivers sometimes need to leave. At Paradise In-Home Care, we do our best to make sure that we send you a reliable caregiver to assist your family with the agreed upon services. If your regular caregiver is going to be absent, we will do our best to let you and your family know as soon as we can, and we will ensure that a trained and reliable backup caregiver is supplied. A great caregiver is hard to come by, but that is exactly what your family deserves. That’s why we train, insure, bond, and vouch for all of our caregivers. Your loved one should always have the best care possible, and that’s why we make sure that all of our staff members go through rigorous training and are prepared for any emergency before they are sent out into the field.
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