How do you find the right caregiver for your loved one? When your mother or father requires some level of help in order to live at home, then they need a caregiver. One of the first instincts that adult children have when it comes to providing care to a loved one is to be that caregiver for them.

However, it’s also one of the most difficult decisions that you could make. Trying to be a family home care provider offers a number of challenges, and it can be damaging not only to your mental and emotional frame of mind, but it can also potentially harm your relationship with your loved one.

That’s why it’s a good idea to find a professional in home care provider, or even a few different in home care providers for your mother or father. But how do you sift through all of the different providers to choose the right one?

One of the best things that you can do is find an agency, rather than trying to hire an independent contractor. Yes, you might be able to find an independent caregiver who is honest, reliable, and has the right level of experience that your mother or father would need, but the responsibility for conducting a background check would be solely yours.

You want to make sure that your mother or father not only gets the right level of care, but that the person who comes into his or her home on a regular basis (or even ends up living there with them) is honest and reliable.

Find a few different agencies in the area that have positive reputations. You can search online to find out more about each agency, or contact the county’s health department to see if they know anything about them.

Once you find an agency that offers the level of support that your mother or father is going to need, then you want to be sure that the in home care provider will get along with your loved one. Personality matters and although most of the caregivers that you’ll find through an agency will have plenty of experience, you want your mother or father to be comfortable with them.

Request to meet with the potential in home care provider with your loved one.  If you sense that they won’t get along, meet with another.  Be open minded and you’ll realize that finding the right caregiver is possible and likely when you rely on the services of a home health care agency.

 

If you have a loved one who could benefit from a caregiver in East Bay Area CA,  contact the caregivers at Hillendale Home Care. We help seniors and their families with many levels of home care service. Call (925) 933-8181 for more information.