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Assist with household maintenance
- Make meals
- Do grocery and other shopping
- Clean the house
- Do yard work and other outdoor maintenance
- Take care of household repairs
- Install safety devices
- Oversee retrofits
Help with money management
- Write and deposit checks
- Balance checkbook
- Be alert to scams
- Act as fiduciary to handle parent’s financial affairs
- Assist parent with preparation of legal documents such as will, trust, and durable financial power of attorney
Provide personal care and support
- Provide physical assistance for dressing, bathing, washing hair, etc.
- Arrange for haircuts and other personal grooming services
- Help find appropriate mobility devices and other assistive devices
- Provide transportation to social and religious activities
- Provide companionship
- Provide warmth and affection
- Listen to and discuss physical, emotional and mental issues
- Provide connection to larger world (e.g. help with voting)
- See the elderly as more than elderly
Provide and/or monitor health care
- Evaluate, hire, and supervise home health aides
- Pick up medications
- Manage and administer medications
- Provide transportation to doctor appointments
- Arrange and coordinate medical and support services
- Interact with doctors and other medical professionals
- Fill out medical paperwork
- Implement care plan
- Monitor caregivers
- Evaluate facilities
- Coordinate transitions
Deal with bureaucracies
- Fill out paperwork
- Argue with hospital, government, and insurance officials
- Intervene in the event of scams or problems with elder abuse or neglect in facilities