How to Choose a Home Care Worker, The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents, Vol. 2 (The Boomers Guide To Aging Parents)

This minibook is for anyone who is considering getting help in the home for an aging parent, and for the elders themselves who plan to hire someone. There is an explanation of the legal risks of hiring, and guidance about the best way to overcome your parent’s resistance.
Author, Carolyn L. Rosenblatt, is a registered nurse and an attorney with over 40 years of combined experience in her two professions. She is a consultant and mediator with a practice in San Rafael, California.
In this volume, Ms. Rosenblatt uses her firsthand experience of working herself as a homecare worker for elderly, as well as her experience in training and supervising home care workers in an agency where she was a registered nurse. Her legal knowledge about how to hire someone, what the law requires of an employer and her awareness of the costs of using an agency makes this a useful tool for anyone who needs to get someone to help an aging loved one at home. If you are considering bringing in outside help for an aging parent, you need to make wise decisions about how to do it. If you choose an agency to help you find the right worker, there are things a good consumer should look for in choosing that agency. If you hire on your own, you’ll need the legal tips you’ll find here to be a good consumer of home care services for aging loved ones. This brief, but thorough little book can increase your confidence that you’re doing it right. It’s all summarized for you in Ten Tips for Choosing a Good Home Care Worker.