Caregiver Profile

Do you need an easy yet effective way to identify and locate the best types of caregivers to fit your needs? Simply check off the following caregiving tasks (skillset) required, click submit, and the results will show you the best caregiver matches. Your caregiver profile will also determine whether a medical or non-medical Home Care Agency is most appropriate. Our Caregiver Profile saves time and reduces confusion in understanding the various duties and qualifications of numerous home healthcare professionals. Hiring the most suitable caregiver corresponding to your needs may also translate into employing the most affordable one. Your caregiver profile results will give you answers to help prepare you for next step of actually hiring home care assistance.

Household Tasks

	Light Housekeeping: clean and keep tidy all living areas
	Laundry: wash and change bed linens and launder personal
	Meals: cook, grocery shop, prepare food ahead for later meals
	Organization: bill paying, banking, mail sorting, other home maintenance

Transportation, Companionship, Safety

	Transportation: drive and escort shopping, errands, bank, dr appointments
	Companionship: encourage social participation, escort on outings and to recreational events, everyday stimulating conversation, phone call assistance
	Safety: supervise in home to avoid falls, household accidents and ensure easy access to emergency contacts

Personal Care

	Eating: assist feeding, provide nutritious meals and adequate fluids
	Bathing: assist bathing, transferring in/out tub/shower, bed-baths as needed
	Dressing / Grooming: assist dressing, glasses, hearing aides, special orthotics (i.e. braces), hair care, shaving, oral hygiene
	Ambulation: assist walking, safe use of assistive devices, range of motion and strengthening exercises
	Toileting: assist to bathroom, bedside commode, urinal, bedpan usage
	Incontinence: assist changing diapers, undergarments, pads, related skin care

Basic Health Monitoring

	Skin: monitor for signs of breakdown, apply pressure reduction measures
	Nutrition: monitor weight, nutritional intake, adhere to dietary restrictions
	Vital Signs: take blood pressure, temperatures, pulses and report changes
	Intake / Output: encourage adequate fluids, monitor fluid intake and urine output
	Lab Monitoring: perform prescribed blood work and report results to physician

Medication Management

	When capable: remind to take medications and follow-up
	When Forgetful: give oral medications prepared by responsible party and follow-up
	Supplies: manage supply of prescriptions to have all meds on-hand
	Teaching: instruct new medications or monitor changes in regime per plan of care, assess response, side effects, and adverse reactions
	Injections: administer prescribed injections per authorized plan of care, report side effects, adverse reactions

Mobility

	Home Assessment:evaluate home safety needs, arrange for adaptive equipment
	Therapy: assess, plan, perform and evaluate physical therapy to regain strength and maximal activities of daily living plan
	Teaching: instruct prescribe exercise regime and safe ambulation with/without assistive devices
	Assistance: help perform prescribed exercises, report progress to supervisor

Communication

	Therapy: assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapy to regain speech, breathing and swallowing function
	Teaching: instruct speech therapy regime, evaluate technique and compliance
	Assistance: help performing prescribed exercises, report progress to supervisor

Support

	Referrals: identify and arrange local resources for home care services, adult daycare, respite, financial assistance and support groups
	Intervention: provide family and individual counseling and crisis intervention

Wound and Bedsores

	Wound / Bedsore: assess wound, incision or bedsore healing, signs and symptoms of infection and evaluate response to treatment
	Teach Care: instruct wound or bedsore regime, evaluate technique, compliance
	Treatment: perform wound / bedsore care per prescribed regime, report signs and symptoms infection and progress to supervisor

Alzheimer's

	Home Safety: closely supervise for safe environment, secure area with use of monitoring alarm devices to avoid wandering
	Emotional Support: provide structured activity at appropriate cognitive level to minimize confusion

Diabetes

	New Diabetic: teach special skin care, insulin injection technique, blood glucose monitoring, hypo/hyperglycemia and related emergency protocol
	Diet: prepare special prescribed diets, encourage compliance with restrictions
	Glucose Monitoring: check blood glucose per orders, report results to supervisor
	Insulin: remind insulin injections per prescribed regime, follow-up and report compliance to supervisor

Ostomies: Colostomy, Urostomy

	New Ostomy: teach ostomy care, preventive skin care, troubleshooting
	Care: assist with ostomy changes, monitoring peri-stomal skin

Feeding Tubes: G-Tube, NG Tube

	New Tube: teach pro-active skin care, dressing changes and troubleshooting problems with blockage, tube placement, skin infections
	Tube Changes: insert new tube per dr. authorized plan of care and as needed
	Feeding: teach tube feeding regime, evaluate competency and compliance
	Care: perform daily and as needed dressing changes and skin care to tube site

Catheters: Foley Indwelling and External

	New Catheter: teach drainage bag changes and cleaning, securing tubing, trouble shooting dislodged catheters, placement, blockages, drainage amounts
	Catheter Changes: insert catheter per authorized plan of care and as needed
	Care: perform daily and as needed catheter care including emptying drainage bag, monitoring intake and output, cleaning and securing tubing and bags

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