How Non Medical Care-Givers Gave My Family A New Lease Of Life

1. How Non Medical Care How Non Medical Care- -Givers Gave My Family A New Lease Of Life Family A New Lease Of Life Givers Gave My The thought of not being able to look after my grandfather when we was diagnosed with stage 2 lung cancer was unbearable. Being 19 years old, living across the country starting my freshman year of college in Massachusetts, I was at a loss for what to do. As an only child, raised for as long as I can remember by my grandparents, initially I selfishly felt concerned for my own future and how I would cope with the illness, not to mention if we lost him. My grandmother was his rock through the thick of it, accompanied him to his chemotherapy appointments, stood by him through radiation, but when she passed away in the Spring of 2018 from a sudden heart attack, he was left to fend for himself. The disease had stopped growing and by the Fall after my grandmother’s passing, we were told he was in remission. He had been given a new lease of life, but the treatment had left him frail, a shell of his former self and in his old age he grew lonely and needed help living day to day. I couldn’t bring myself to put him in a residential facility, I’ve always known that when the time came, this was the last thing he wanted. He is and always has been the only family I have, he looked after me my entire life, but now my time had come to do the caring, I felt like a failure. Completing my Senior Year and making it to Graduation seemed to be a pipe dream as I was exhausted from flying back to Seattle every weekend and even this wasn’t enough. I knew my grandfather couldn’t go on living the way he was for much longer but he was no longer sick and I wasn’t aware of my options. Though it may have been naïve of me, I had never looked into alternative care-giving services. After joining countless online carer support groups and researching the best way to help him regain his love for life, I was introduced to Non Medical Staffing services. I wanted to make sure that whatever happened, my grandpa could maintain as much self-sufficiency as possible and stay in the comfort of his own home. The process of choosing which company to go with was over-whelming to say the least. I needed someone to tick all the boxes while still upholding a rigorous hiring process with frequent drug tests and background checks. A home-care specialist company called Care Indeed stood out to me. Initially this was due to how close they were to home, but after looking into them

2. further the predominant benefits such as round-the-clock flexible care and cost efficient care-plans meant that I could complete my degree and not have to worry that I had left my main responsibility behind. With regular check-ins and updates from the team, I felt involved in his life. Over the last few months we’ve seen him flourish again as he does his routine weekly shop and spends hours playing bridge with the Private Duty Aides. Being put in an unbearable situation led me to a solution which I no doubt had my reservations towards. However by accepting support from nonmedical caregivers, I was given my life back and my grandfather was allowed to enjoy living again. From managing his ever-growing concoctions of medications, to meal prepping and laundry, having someone to support with even the most basic of chores meant that we could become a family again.