Deborah Perry

• Assisted with dressing guidance, grooming, meal preparation and medication reminders.
• Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
• Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship.
• Cleaned house, ran errands, managed laundry and completed weekly grocery shopping.
• Engaged patients in meaningful conversation, socialization and activity while providing personal care assistance.
• Maintained clean personal areas and prepared healthy meals to support client nutritional needs.
• Assisted patients with self-administered medications.
• Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
• Supported clients with mental support and physical activities to accomplish quality of life and sustain needs.
• Provided safe mobility support to help patients move around personal and public spaces.
• Transported individuals to events and activities, medical appointments and shopping trips.
• Provided transportation to doctor's appointments, grocery stores, salons and barbershops.
• Planned healthy meals, purchased ingredients and cooked meals to provide adequate nutrition for client wellbeing.
• Determined specific needs and provided most appropriate level of services for patient well-being.
• Documented residents' mental status, sleep and eating patterns in medical record books.
• Entertained, conversed and read aloud to keep patients mentally alert.
• Shopped for groceries regularly in order to keep house stocked with necessities.
• Maintained frequent supervision of residents unable to call for assistance.
• Helped clients manage money, pay bills and shop for groceries or personal items.

We built an apartment on our property and moved in my mother in-law from Connecticut. She suffered from Huntington's Disease. We opened a home care business to have assistance for her around the clock. Our family were her main caregiver's. She was a wonderful woman for all the thirty years I knew her. She passed away in 2012.

This used car dealership began in the sixties and is still very popular and family owned. I worked alongside the owner and was responsible for everything from Accounting to auto sales. I enjoyed this job and the people I worked with and hated to leave.

But my husband's mother was seriously ill and no longer able to live alone.