Companion Care Needed For My Mother In Youngstown

About who needs care: My mom needs someone to help with housework, the occasional errand and someone to visit her. It is also useful to me if someone could take her to her doctor appointments when I am not available. Housework would include cleaning floors (with a Swiffer or other floor cleaning tool), help with laundry, and companionship. She might want to go to a movie, for example, or go to church on Sunday morning (or Saturday Evening) or just have someone in the house to talk with. It is very important to understand, however, that my mom feels vulnerable to strangers and, as such, is very particular about who she will trust. The person performing this kind of help must be the same person all of the time in order to win her trust. If different people come, she will not want the help because she will feel as though she cannot get to know the person well enough to learn to trust them. This is why home health care does not work for her. She is also particular about the cleanliness of he home. Mom is becoming more forgetful lately. She likes to read although I am not sure how long this will last if her memory continues to deteriorate. I usually do her grocery shopping and take her to doctor appointments and stop in to visit her (and check on her). She is pretty intelligent but no longer wants to use her computer as it overwhelms her. She takes many medications and may need assistance with ordering them or picking them up (she was too confused by mail order, so she went back to ordering from WalGreens). She does not get up until 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. She makes her own breakfast and watches TV most of the day with some housecleaning in between. She often tells me she did not sleep well. She likes doctor appointments in the early afternoon so she has time to wake up, get her breakfast, and get ready for me to pick her up. About the care needs: By far, the most difficult issue for a caregiver is winning my mother's trust. She had a caregiver who seemed to take advantage of her (like my mom offered her a few make up samples from a small bag mom had collected over time and the lady took all of the samples as opposed to one or two; in another incident, my mom overpaid the caregiver, but the caregiver just kept the extra money). Services needed include: transportation, meal preparation, errands / shopping, light housekeeping, and companionship.