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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][img][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should probably be looking to hire a live in, with proper pay and benefits, and rely on the agency for days off, with the understanding that if, e.g., a snowstorm prevents a day off the live in will get overtime and/or comp time later. Check your agreement with the agency before you try to hire somebody you met through them, but it may be worth it to you if the agency can find somebody better than you can. [/quote]

From what I understand the way a "live in" works is they are there for the night shift and a new person shows for the day shift. You cannot hire someone to just live with you and be responsible 24-7. So you still need the next person to show up. Also, make sure there are not valuables around, expect stuff to get stolen, be careful about making accusations unless you witnessed it on a camera because seniors are forgetful and nobody should lose a job due to a senior memory lapse. [/quote]

You can hire people to do pretty much anything you want, and a person “on duty” in the daytime and “on call” at night (possibly with a check in) is a workable model in some situations. The whole point of a “live in” is that they live-in. Think of an au pair or nanny but for an adult. Good point on the valuables. [/quote]

We've had caregivers for close to 15 years. We started out with only 4 hours per day.  We've only had 2 things missing in that time and I suspect Dad may have given one thing away.  One item was a reproduction metal toy. I think someone may have thought this was worth $5000 while it was worth "0". I think Dad may have given it to one of the caregivers.

The bigger problem by far is that the caregivers have been rough on things.  I had wood trim cracking in the house because they were running the heat at 85 degrees and it was so hot it cracked the wood trim.  I had to put a regulator on the thermostat after that. I've had caregivers spray windex on the wood dining room table to clean it. The wood table that had some value is no worth "0". We removed all rugs to make the house safer.  Our chairs had wood floor protectors on the bottom but we've had several caregivers close to 500 pounds.  It doesn't matter if you have protectors on the bottom of the chairs the weight of a 500 pound person will cause gouges in your wood floor when they use the chairs.  If you have finer things in the house I'd recommend moving the finer things out and distribute to family or sell these items and replace with Rooms To Go furniture or cheapo Wayfair furniture.

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