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Dealing with a narcissistic client as a live-in carer can be emotionally taxing but also rewarding when approached with the right strategies. ..

Date created: 17/01/2025

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Being a live-in carer is rewarding but mentally demanding, often leading to stress and isolation. Try these practical methods to maintain well-being and ensure compassionate care...

Date created: 14/02/2025

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Live-in carers provide essential care and must know their employment rights, including pay, contracts, working hours, and legal protections..

Date created: 31/01/2025

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Try these de-escalation techniques to handle client refusal of personal care while maintaining respect for their autonomy...

Date created: 10/01/2025

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Many live-in carers are still faced with doing the shopping for their client while they stay at home. ..

Date created: 11/05/2020

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With the advent of the coronavirus and all the restrictions that have come with it, live-in carers may have questions about protocol involving incoming carers, outgoing carers and who stays where...

Date created: 11/05/2020

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Live-in carers sometimes find that they or their clients become depressed. Because of the nature of the job, depression is far more common than most people realize. Live-in care work can be lonely and extremely stressful, particularly if you find yourself in an isolated placement with little contact with other people...

Date created: 11/05/2020

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While we all hope for a sweet, kind client, who is a delight to work for, this is often not the case. Sometimes live-in carers simply do not get along with their clients. ..

Date created: 11/05/2020

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Right now, with the coronavirus getting a grip on countries, there are many live-in carers who find themselves displaced. In a ‘normal’ situation an incoming carer returns and the previous live-in carer heads home or to another placement. ..

Date created: 15/04/2020

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In the normal day-to-day live-in care job having a two-hour break is accepted as part of the carer agreement. In fact, it is also a legal requirement that a total of 14 hours per week should be allocated to the carer as a rest time...

Date created: 15/04/2020

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Your client may recently have received a letter from the NHS to say that they are considered a ‘high risk.’ This is because the NHS has contacted everyone who they consider to be at risk of serious illness because of the coronavirus. ..

Date created: 15/04/2020

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Every live-in carer will be asking questions right now about protecting themselves, their client and still carrying out daily or weekly routines such as collecting medication and shopping. ..

Date created: 15/04/2020

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Live-in care work can be stressful at the best of times. Sometimes you may find yourself in situations you never thought you would be in such as caring for very ill people or being alone with a client in a remote place...

Date created: 06/04/2020

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This is a question that many new live-in carers may ask, and it is a very valid one so let’s look at the ideal time frame for a live-in carer to be with the same client...

Date created: 25/03/2020

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