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SalaryPay $225/day, plus room & board
Clients On-Going Schedule: Monday at 7:00am – Friday at 7:00am
We are looking for a live-in caregiver (5 days a week) who has experience and patience with clients who have Dementia. This is and ongoing (Long Term) position for the “right Caregiver.” The role is primarily as a homemaker and there is no personal care.
ROOM & BOARD SETTING:
Client lives in a nice house in a gated community. Client spends most of his time in his bedroom, Caregiver has own room and bathroom upstairs and meals are provided to caregiver as well as caregiver can add their own preferences to weekly grocery list and also order out (Ex: pizza, etc.) on a night where both client and caregiver would like to have pizza. And of course bringing your own food is an option.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Keep house tidy - take care of laundry
- make meals for client -occasional errands as needed
Client has “frontal temporal dementia” and does not want buddy or take charge/control personalities for caregivers. At times, gets very agitated but eventually calms down and moves on. He needs to ‘have control’ and does NOT like to be directed or told what to do in any way. This will be a very big trigger for him and cause an explosive reaction.
If this happens, the caregiver should remain calm and quiet, best to say, “Yes, sir” and go sit down or remove self from room so he has quiet space to calm down. And he will. After a while of being out of sight, he will generally forget about the upset.
Triggers for this Client:
Being Directed or bossed or “told what to do”. Also gets very angry quickly if people do not listen or answer or give him respectful attention when he is speaking to them. So give him full attention, answer him when he is talking to you or asking a question. “Yes, sir” is the attitude he needs in a caregiver (this is exaggerated because of his type of dementia and how it has affected him). He is used to be the big boss at his company so when working in his home, caregivers and Home Helpers employees need to treat him like THE BOSS. When things get off track and he gets extremely agitated, be polite and fairly quiet and as soon as it’s comfortable to do so, remove yourself from his space. Give him space and time and he will move on and calm down. He has never been physically aggressive. But he can yell and sound aggressive at times. But never harms anyone. Always call office if/when client gets very angry/upset. Office team member will help caregiver through difficult situations and give help and advice!!
suffers with depression, has frequent mood changes, short term memory loss, and keeps odd sleeping hours
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