Essential activities that a caregiver may need to perform at one time or another:

• Grooming – Hair care, shaving, oral care, and skin care.
• Bathing – Assisting with shower, bath, or sponge bathing.
• Dressing – Assisting with dressing and/or undressing the consumer.
• Toileting – Assistance with bathroom, commode, urinal, bedpan, and/or diapers.
• Ambulation – Assisting with a walker, crutches, cane, or gait belt.
• Transferring – from bed, wheelchair, low chair, use of a lift, or turning a client in bed.
• Medication – remind client to take medications at prescribed times during a visit.
• Cleaning – for client safety and comfort, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, laundry, changing linens, and
                       light house keeping (dusting, vacuuming, etc.) the general areas used by the consumer.
• Meals – shopping for food, cooking food, following special diets, serving food, and or feeding the consumer.
• Companionship – Providing company, stimulating the consumer through having conversation, playing games,
                                    cards...etc.
• Incidental Transportation – to and from doctors' appointments, shopping, and errands.
• Communication – Caregivers must be able to read, write, speak and understand English. Coordinate client care
                                    with co-workers as needed. Report changes in client's condition to our Client Services staff.

The above activities are normally performed within a consumer's home. Caregivers must be able to bend down lift and do other things associated with care giving, cleaning and cooking. Caregivers must be patient is dealing with clients' physical and/or emotional conditions – seeking advice from our Client Services staff as needed. Since most consumers can not be left alone, we require the caregiver to take on duty meal brake and not leave the consumers home during the break.

Formal training is not required to work as a non-medical in-home caregiver in the state of Pennsylvania , but it may be helpful to complete 120 hours of specialized training to obtain a Home Health Aid Certificate or become a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Otherwise, we provide the following training:

• Orientation to the service
• Working with older persons
• Personal care
• Care of the home and personal belongings
• Safety and accident prevention
• Food nutrition and meal preparation.
• Specialized training will be taught by a registered nurse supervisor on staff.
• Provide continuing education amount to about 18 hours each year as required by the State of Pennsylvania. Informational Articles are mailed along with tests. The tests are completed by caregivers and returned to our Client Services department.

You must have a valid Pennsylvania drivers license, access to a reliable vehicle, pass a pre-employment background screening, be a legal resident of the United States (or have a valid work VISA), be able to read, write, and effectively communicate in English, and you must show a genuine interest and display sympathy in caring for the elderly and those sick within their homes.

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