Try: Before hiring a caregiver it’s important to know what you need them to do and what the senior needs most here’s a list of general caregiver activities responsibilities social interpersonal tasks include spending time with the elder chatting listening watching television and where possilble taking the elder on outings i e to a museum or other location of interest to the elder daily household operation tasks include planning meals cooking cleaning doing laundry changing bed linens shopping and running errands bodily medical needs tasks include helping with using the toilet helping with bathing and dressing lifting the elder out of bed or out of a wheelchair assisting with administering medications attending to a wound or bandage and taking the elder to doctor doctor’s appointments or to the hospital information references "hiring elder companions caregivers " available at www care4hire com
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*This information is listed as a Fact Sheet and is not explicitly medically licensed