Full Time
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$14 – 18/hr
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Starts
01/24
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Tucson, AZ
About who needs care: Incontinent. Alzheimer's. No short term memory. Gets up around 8 a.m. Sometimes can use walker but mostly wheelchair as knees are bad and has fallen several times. Caregiver may need to help her out of bed and needs help to change her depends. Make her breakfast, bring in newspaper. Clean up. Knowledge of keeping kosher helpful. She sleeps in recliner after breakfast. Take out garbage, wash soiled nightgown and robe. She is resistant to changing depends after she pees. Give her medication at breakfast and dinner and evening if sleeping over for when I'm on a trip. She has bad hemorrhoids so she yells when she pees or poops. Need to give her sponge bath once a week which she is resistant to. She loves to play rummy-q and watch Golden Girls, Wheel of Fortune and Madam Secretary in evening.
About the care needs: Friendly, patient, will engage her, play rummy-q with her. Easy to learn. Knowledge of keeping kosher helpful but not necessary.
Relient car with heat and air conditioning.
Services needed include: transportation, meal preparation, errands / shopping, light housekeeping, companionship, feeding, bathing / dressing, and mobility assistance.