About who needs care: Seeking a live-in caregiver to live with a 78-year-old widowed, who suffers from moderate dementia with prominent memory impairment, emotional lability, and diabetes. Client is feeling particularly isolated and lonely since loss of husband in 5/2023 and inability to drive since 10/2023. Looking for a mature, caring, calm, and patient individual who can try to bring a sense of meaning and purpose back into the life of someone with a complex psychosocial situation that is compounded by complicated grief, depression, and memory impairment. Applicants should converse easily and also intuitive enough to sense that alone time is desired, without being told to go away. At this time, the client makes her own bed, applies make-up every morning, and showers in
Companionship
Light Housekeeping
Non-Smoker
Comfortable With Pets
Meal Preparation
Medication Prompting
Errands / Shopping
Transportation Required