Hi! My name is Brian.
I recently finished my latest private caretaker job.
The late Chinese friend of 98 years recently died.
I am required to move out of his old house at the end of this February.
Over the last 20 years I have worked for four different elderly clients:
1) 15 year here in San Diego for an equally aged man until his death at 96 in which I did all household work: cleaning, all kitchen and cooking, yard work, driver, companion, etc.
2) Then 3 months for an elderly woman who was living at her home in Missoula Montana for her last three months as she insisted on smoking.
She died to a plethora of symptoms and disease related to heavy smoking and diabetes.
Again I was doing household related work, etc.
3) Then an elderly man going on 80 years old who had dementia.
This situation required that I live 6 months in Montana and as snowbird 6 months in Yuma Arizona.
After second trip to Yuma his dementia got so bad he was put in a nursing home.
I also walked their dog daily.
4) A man already 97 and still living in his own home back here in San Diego.
I was his caretaker and house cleaner for his last seven months.
I am 68 years old and still go to the gym.
I am nevertheless somewhat restrained, as to how much I can lift, now due to two back ailments related to herniated disk and sacral-iliac joint syndrome—so I cannot lift someone around who is going on two hundred pounds.
Otherwise I can do all forms of housekeeping, yard work, cooking, driving, Activities of Daily Living.
I did take an introductory class in being a home caretaker at the city college of San Diego.
Also I have an undergraduate degree in Health Education with a minor in Reading.
I self-study related things from books and the Internet (such as recently read a book on “Dementia For Dummies”).
Also I have read:
“How to Take Care For Aging Parents” by Virginia Morris.
This 550 page one volume is like an encyclopedia and is considered a classic--every family with aging people should consider buying this book--not expensive on the Internet.
Virginia Morris is her 3rd 2014 edition cited above says that the average nursing home costs can average $80,000 a year while assisted living can average about $40,000 a year (such institutions also have good points and not so good realities).
I prefer to work an at-home situation, directly with the family.
Frankly I cannot afford to live in San Diego with the amount of social security I get.
If you are interested in talking further you may call me or respond by email.
I prefer to talk in voice over the phone.
Keep text messages short.
One last note--unfortunately television has become too much the companion to elderly people.
Personally, I do not care what TV shows my client(s) may or may not watch--but I do not want to watch (or hear) an excess of television--an industry I frankly have little more than contempt--especially with its vast capacity for distortion and propaganda (and dumbed down programming).
I am a reader and am on the Internet where I can find viable information.
I do not believe everything so-called experts say about Covid 19 vaccines.
I am quite aware of the "many" dissident voices of MDs, virologists, scientists who have spoken out against the vaccines but have been mostly censored.
Single, non-smoker, never married, no children, not gay, Caucasian, fairly mature and open-minded.
Thank you for your consideration,
Brian
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