Hi! My name is Brian.
I recently finished my latest private caretaker job at the end of the year.
My late Chinese friend of 98 years died.
I was required to move out of his old house at the end of this February.
I've been living in my van.
Not to bad once you get the routine and have a gym membership.
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 do get a social security check but San Diego is so tremendously expensive, so I keep working (and I do not mind it).
Fairly young at heart.
I am nevertheless somewhat restrained, as to how much I can lift, now due to back and feet ailments related to sacral-iliac joint syndrome—so I cannot confidently 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 ADL.
Years ago I took 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 do not smoke or drink.
I am not looking to care for an active alcoholic.
I can register with programs that pay for care.
I have engaged in self-study 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, 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 both good and not so good realities).
I prefer to work an at-home situation, directly with the family.
Why should I or the family pay a middle man corporation? Last time I checked companies were charging about $45 an hour with a minimum requirement of 4 hour shifts and at least 12 hours a week.
That's already going on $500! I am quite reasonable.
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 relatively short.
I do not do elaborate finger typing.
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 I am on the Internet where I can find viable information.
I do not believe everything so-called experts say about Covid 19.
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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