Private live-in companion needed

From
Kate Coulter <kate@gerontologis.com>
To
Timothy Thomas <tt@homecareassistance.com>
Date
Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:47:31 -0400
Folder
INBOX
--Apple-Mail=_E21FB4B5-FB2A-42B2-B49C-ED71FF808AE7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hello Timothy, How are you? Sounds like your business is flourishing from the email you = sent me some time ago. Ours as well. I just hired another part time = consultant-social worker.=20 I am contacting you in the hopes that you can help me on a personal = note. I am looking for a live-in companion for my mother in law. She is = autonomous, however she lost her husband of 68 years marriage about 2 = months ago. She has really never lived alone before and doesn=E2=80=99t = want to! Currently my brother in law is staying with her, but he will = soon have to go home to his own life out west. My mother in law lives on = Grosvenor near Queen Mary. Jean is looking for someone to live in her 3 bedroom duplex with her = until one day she cannot stay at home. She has macular degeneration. Its = hard to say how much vision she has lost because she is very stoic and = keeps her weaknesses very distant from us. She still manages to send = emails from her Mac and texts us all from her iPad, but some writings = are hard to read. Her biggest fear is tripping on a crack in the = sidewalk and falling. She has osteoporosis, so a fall could be quite = detrimental as you can imagine. She is very fit as she has been doing = Pilates for the past 15 years weekly. She is 89 years old as of = yesterday! She is extremely intelligent and worldly. She keeps up with all the news = and has an opinion on it as well. She has musician friends who come over = and they play music together (cello, piano and flute)=E2=80=A6.she plays = the flute. She likes to go out daily for coffee, errands, meet friends. = She still cooks all her meals=E2=80=A6in fact she prepares meals for all = her family whenever they come over, which is at least one big Sunday = dinner meal per week. She belongs to a book club which meets every 2 = weeks=E2=80=A6she reads about 1 book per week. She looks after all her = ADL=E2=80=99s herself. She has a cleaning lady. She doesn=E2=80=99t have = a car anymore, so she takes taxis here and there. She would need someone to be a companion. Give her a strong arm to hold = onto when needed to navigate steps, sidewalks, etc. Someone to help her = out with groceries (ie. accompany her to the store=E2=80=A6.she does her = own choosing). Someone to cook along side with her. She has weak wrists = and finds it hard to do some of the chopping. Someone to accompany her = in the taxi to do errands regularly. Finally someone to be in the house = overnight=E2=80=A6.just in case. Jean has 3 incredibly devoted and attentive sons, but none can move in = with her. She doesn=E2=80=99t want to leave her house and move to a = residence=E2=80=A6we looked at that option. We were hoping to find someone who can live with ,her in exchange for = room and board and of course have a small salary. Do you know of someone? Is this the kind of service that you pr

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