Elder Care in Vancouver, British Columbia

please see experience. :-) HELP FOR A SENIOR WOMAN or MAN to stay in your home ! I can provide help for you either in a LIVE IN or LIVE OUT situation. Do you want to stay in your house but you could use some help? Whether you want to stay in your house forever, or whether you need to get ready while you wait for a more manageable housing option to become available for you, you deserve to feel safe and comfortable in your own home. Maybe you want to keep your independence and your privacy and stay in your own home, but you could use a little support ? I can act as a safety net for you as someone to call on for help. FOR LITTLE OR NO EXTRA COST to you, (depending on service to you and available accommodations) you can have your BASIC WEEKLY CHORES AND ERRANDS taken care of, because IN EXCHANGE, I can take up some of your unneeded basement space where I'm out of the way, but nearby when needed. I can take care of BASIC WEEKLY CHORES AND ERRANDS such as changing the bed, laundry, garbage, and recycling, helping prepare grocery lists, shopping for groceries, pet feeding, litter box and poop patrol, watering houseplants, mailing bills and letters, and morning and evening safety checks, while providing a friendly, reliable overnight presence on whom you can rely for problem solving, medium lifting and warding off the bumps in the night. MORE? lf you'd like more help, then we can work out a fee for more hours or services. Or if don't want anyone staying in your house, but you'd just like help for a few hours a week we can do that instead. I REGRET I CANNOT OFFER Alzheimer's or dementia care although confusion or memory problems are not necessarily caused by dementia and can be hugely affected by diet, exercise, sleep, medications, loneliness, anxiety and depression. Let's get out, get moving, get laughing, and blow out the cobwebs. Nobody is perfect so let’s just live the best life we can and not take it all so seriously. WHO AM I? reliable, long time local resident, professional, clever, competent, English extraction. Having been a home owner I'm drain conscious, fire conscious, freezing and flooding conscious. I’m an English Canadian baby boomer offering friendly intelligent help with humour, discretion, acceptance and respect. I take my vitamins so I'm physically and emotionally healthy with no smoking, no drinking, no drugs, gambling, or bad relationships. And no 'DRAMA'. But I do like laughter, music, and animals. ♪ ♪ I HAVE: Clean driver's license, First aid certificate, Relaxation Massage certificate, and had Community Care Facilities licenses (included background & criminal checks) MY BACKGROUND includes: parenting 3 kids, (husband was physician, deceased), selling Westside real estate, environmental education, running licensed daycares, and corporate and residential stress reduction massage programs. I had a mum with Alzheimer's and a child with autism. I ENJOY good music, movies and books, animals and aquariums, being outside or being cosy inside. I like helping people do what they want with practicalities and pampering. I'm very aware of fitness & nutrition but believe that grownup people have a right to their own preferences. I love old music, my parents' old values, and positive work. WHY HOME SHARING? I like to be useful and I love the idea of helping each other. My finances are tied into the forest industry, and you can imagine how devastating that has been over the last few years, so I'd like to eliminate some of my expenses while forestry recovers and I rebuild my financial base. ADDITIONAL HELP and COMPANIONSHIP If you'd like more than just basic weekly chores, I can help with: reading, writing letters and correspondence, picking up from post office, medication reminders, arranging appointments, maintaining calendar, simple meal preparation and clean up, accompanying to lunch, dinner, the tea room or the pub, help entertaining friends, meetings and sporting events, support for exercising, whether it be walking, exercise class or exercising at home, overseeing service repair people, gardening, dog walking, preparing future meals, setting up disaster preparation. . . whatever is wanted . . . and whenever possible, FUN. PERSONAL SERVICES Assistance with: grooming, dressing, bathing, eating, massage of neck, back, arms, hands, and scalp. ANIMAL CARE, including walking and grooming, vet visits, administering shots and meds, for your beloved beast. Visits to the dog beach or park. COMPANIONSHIP travel support, library, art gallery, lectures, plays, movies. Social event accompaniment. Visiting old haunts. Playing games and cards, renting your favourite movies, sorting photos. TRANSPORTATION I can take you for a ride with your hair ruffling in the breeze, just for the pure fun of it in my 2008, air conditioned, 5 Star safety rated car, or for personal shopping, visits, outings, medical appointments, errands, visiting or taking friends out. HELP DOWNSIZING. Maybe you're in transition or maybe you just want to downsize so you can feel lighter and freer and more in control. I can help with: sorting, culling, separating personal treasures from 'should keeps' and finding satisfying homes for whatever you don't want to keep. Packing, shipping, storing for eventual destinations. (And no, I'm NOT looking to acquire your goodies because I've just cleared out twenty five years of stuff from my own five bedroom home in Kerrisdale and still have way too much in storage. So yes, I can help you get rid of things but I'm really not looking to collect more for myself.) WHAT I"M LOOKING FOR. I want a quiet calm place to sleep, work on my computer, and do yoga or some other kind of exercise. I prefer private entrance and toilet and capability to lock my private space where I can keep my belongings. I need safe nearby parking for my 2008 car and decent lighting to get to my doorway. I require a safe environment with no mould, or poisonous or dangerous chemicals. I require a non smoking house, preferably non drinking or at most, occasional or 'drink with dinner' alcohol use. And no 'recreational' drug use. I'm not a party person and do very little socializing although my daughter visits frequently and she is also non smoking and non drinking. IF YOU FEEL that your situation might be a match for my situation, please phone me at 778 919-...and if I'm unable to answer immediately, please leave me a message so that I may get back to you. Who knows, this could be a lovely meeting of minds or just a lovely practical solution. Cheers! Please phone Gale at 778 919-...