Companion Care in Coconut Creek
For someone with no trouble at all on the practical side, whose week has quietly narrowed to the television and the occasional telephone call.
A stranger every fortnight is not company
Companionship is the one service where continuity is not a convenience but the entire product. An hour with somebody who has to be told again about the grandchildren, the old job and the bad hip is not company; it is an interview.
Kept on the same aide, the third visit is better than the first and the tenth is better again. That is why this is rostered the way it is, and why the matching is done on temperament rather than on who has a gap.
Companion hours are often the smallest booking a household takes, and they combine naturally with a cooked meal or an hour of upkeep.
What an afternoon holds
Social rather than clinical, and planned around what the person actually enjoys.
Conversation that carries on
Picked up where it was left, because the same person is in the chair and the plan records what matters to the household.
A meal eaten together
Company makes a plate far more likely to be cleared, so this visit frequently carries the main meal of the day as well.
Leaving the house
A walk, a small errand, an appointment at the hairdresser, half an hour in a cafe. Brief outings, and enough to give the week something in it worth retelling.
Cards, puzzles, photographs
Whatever the person actually enjoys, recorded so a covering aide never turns up empty-handed.
A note on how it went
Mood, appetite and anything out of the ordinary, recorded so that a gradual change is visible long before it is obvious.
Signs an afternoon would help
- Entire days pass without a visitor
- Meals get eaten on the feet and half abandoned
- The television is doing most of the talking
- Family visits keep slipping by a week
- Going out alone has quietly stopped
One afternoon that holds its place
Tell us what the person genuinely likes doing and the aide is chosen for that, rather than for having a gap.
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