I believe that unfortunately you wil not find caregiving in any outside care residential facility. When you look at the companies seeking employees many of the ads require no previous experience necessary. They want bodies that can do the minimal of caretaking and get by with it. There are many facilities around the South Bay where the r…
I believe that unfortunately you wil not find caregiving in any outside care residential facility. When you look at the companies seeking employees many of the ads require no previous experience necessary. They want bodies that can do the minimal of caretaking and get by with it. There are many facilities around the South Bay where the ratio is 12 patients to one caretaker. How can anything be done for a patient with those odds. To those of us who are paid caregivers it is insulting. They have not a clue of how to interact with those in need of assistance. When you are a caregiver you are hired to interact with the patient to provide their best life possible. That is a very important challenge you are signing up for and more work than many positions require from employees in other work situations.
I wish I’d known that at the time. Thank you for sharing this valuable information. I thought that since the cost was so high, the memory care facility would do more and they said they would. I was wrong.
I believe that unfortunately you wil not find caregiving in any outside care residential facility. When you look at the companies seeking employees many of the ads require no previous experience necessary. They want bodies that can do the minimal of caretaking and get by with it. There are many facilities around the South Bay where the ratio is 12 patients to one caretaker. How can anything be done for a patient with those odds. To those of us who are paid caregivers it is insulting. They have not a clue of how to interact with those in need of assistance. When you are a caregiver you are hired to interact with the patient to provide their best life possible. That is a very important challenge you are signing up for and more work than many positions require from employees in other work situations.
I wish I’d known that at the time. Thank you for sharing this valuable information. I thought that since the cost was so high, the memory care facility would do more and they said they would. I was wrong.