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Caregivers

My father-in-law has this home care for more than 3 years. There is this young lady who keeps making small errors and on 4/4 my father-in-law fell because of her judgment error and short of attention. I have always wanted to let her go because she is only 20 years old and she kept making mistakes and never really admitted her errors... Read moreChevron

Choose the home care service with caution

I just want to clarify about the post I wrote earlier. We have had this love-hate relationship with our home care service. First of all, we hired them as a local service. Then 15 months later, they moved 2 hours away for personal reasons. They hire people from this large family in my father-in-law's hometown while they live 2... Read moreChevron

Are we a victim of this home care service???

Lately we have had some problems with our home care people. the boss and his wife, the home care nurse are running this place. I cannot really say the name. They pay the caregivers improperly according to the gossip (less than they said they would.) Even though we paid so much to the home care, the caregivers still don't get it all - maybe the... Read moreChevron

Caregiving options

There seem to be many options for caregiving. As some people prefer, it is always better to have personal home care (living with the family). If the family cannot be there 24 hours, then outside help in the day will assist the family a lot. This is so far the preference that most people want. But at times, the family is far away... Read moreChevron

Home care

After having used this home service co. for almost 3 years for my father-in-law, I found there are several problems  with home care service. First of all, there are lots of things to take care in the house. We need to make sure he is safe at home so we did lots of accomdations and my FIL also moved downstairs in Nov. This is an old house so... Read moreChevron

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