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Bridget - Tooting

No. of Applicants: 0 - Be the FIRST TO APPLY!
Pay: £ Negotiable
Applications Close: 1st February 2020 


Job Specifics

Posted On: 18th December 2019
Location: Tooting, London (South West)
Job Starts: NOW !
Duration: Unlimited....
Employer: Ben


Requirements

- Companionship

- Help around the Home

- Home Care

- Home Nursing Care

- Personal Hygiene Care


About the Client

Clients Name: Ben Farwagi

Food they like: See Spec, she eats everything, many meals will be prepared so will only need heating up

TV: Documentaries

Books: Problems reading due to the stroke

Days Out: Museums, see spec

Other Interests: See spec


Details:

Ideally looking for carers to come in either.....
1. x3 per day for two hours
or....
2. x2 per day for three hours

Bridget.....
- has had a heart attack and stroke
- she is primarily wheelchair bound
- she can walk with assistance and in a safe environment
- she does NOT realise how disabled she is
- she only has one working hand / arm, her left
- she only has one working leg, the left leg
- she needs help showering and being placed on the toilet (she does not realise how much help she needs)


My Wife and I will......
- aim to be around for two weeks over a six week period at least in general
- in the first month
- aim to do some batch cooking and freeze some meals that can be used as the weeks go on, but the Carer will also be expected to cook / prepare meals


The Carer.......
- clean her area, her bedroom and bathroom, stairs, hall and all of the ground floor (kitchen, bathroom, drawing room, Bridget’s bedroom)
- do basic gardening! Under instruction from Bridget! Just cutting the odd plant / re-potting plants with Bridget

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Rules.....
1. NO walking up or down any stairs
2. NO going to the garden till the lift is installed
3. Be strict !
4. We / She needs to go through 14 boxes of clothes/shoes to more than halve what she has. All stuff that she does not want / need we bag and it goes to a Charity we use (Leonard Cheshire).

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DAILY.....
Rise 9am

Breakfast (tea and toast)

Light exercises - exercise bike and assisted walk and a couple of minutes of hand massage / manipulation

Lunch 1pm

Possible Light exercises - exercise bike and assisted walk and a couple of minutes of hand massage / manipulation

Supper 5pm


Bed 6:30pm / 7pm

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Weekly......

Monday
- Gym 10am-11.30am**

Tuesday
- Shower

Wednesday
- Gym 10am-11.30am**

Thursday
- Shower
- CountryLife Magazine delivered

Friday
- Weekly outing? Cinema / Museum / Walk around the park / garden centre **
- Buy TV Guide from the shop

Saturday

Sunday
- Shower

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Medical / Regular appointments......
Hairdresser **
Dr Appointments **
Opticians **
Hearing Aids **
Dentist **

** Either driven by Ben (one way or each way), or by Taxi (using Bridget’s TaxiCard discount)


-Ben Farwagi


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