I am a mature person who works from home most of the time and am looking at being a part-time caregiver for seniors to interact with people I don't live with. I have my Care Aid Certificate, Emergency First Aid, and was a volunteer with the St Anne's program at Providence Farm. My background is in education technology working in Schools, but I have been running a software development company with two other partners for the last twelve years. I have a very old bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and finished the Health Care Assistant Program at VIU in March 2022.

Home Care has been a fill-in job for me since I was in High School, where I volunteered at my local Legion's home three days a week for grades 11 & 12. After High School, I did a 3-month work placement with the leisure activities coordinator at a senior care home in Greater Toronto. (St Elizabeth's Residence) I worked at Easter seal camps for adults with specific needs in the summers and I did home visits with two seniors during the school term while in university. I provided companionship lunch and light housekeeping at mid-day and another where I was the night relief for women with dementia who needed 24hr care while waiting to get into a care home. For the last year of my mum's life, I was the family home care person helping with appointments, managing medications and doctor visits, assisting with personal care, organizing food, and helping with pet care. My mother had Lupus, CPOD, Arthritis, and diabetes. Before COVID, I volunteered at the St Ann's Garden Program, a senior's day program that ran out of Providence Farm before COVID closed everything down. In the Cowichan Valley, for my first home care job, I have provided home care visits to a lady with dementia. 3-4 days a week for a total of 12 - 15 hours per week. I provided companionship, did light housekeeping, some food prep, helped with personal hygiene and wound dressing. This lady eventually went into a seniors’ home as her dementia became too progressive for her to continue to live on her own. I also worked for a year with an 85-year-old women living on her own. I helped her with groceries, sometimes with her and others for her. I also did light housekeeping, meal prep, laundry, yard work and anything that needed doing around the house as well as taking her to appointments and on outings. I have my Food Safe, St. John's Ambulance First Aid/CPR, and WHIM work safe certificates and have passed several Criminal Records Checks for various volunteer jobs and educational institutes. Additional Information: Ideally, I would be available to provide reliable relief for up to 15 hours a week, as part of a care team or so that the primary caregiver can have a break knowing that consistently the same person will be there to take care of their loved one. I don't mind light housekeeping and food preparation but would prefer my primary responsibility be interacting with the person in my care.