The demand for home care is rising as quickly as the costs for private nursing homes are, however, many people find themselves a bit lost along the way to hiring a caregiver, specifically one that can be trusted to care for your loved one at home.

Trust is a major issue, especially when it comes to bringing someone strange into your home. It’s for this reason that a home based nursing services agency such as CareChamp goes to great lengths to offer peace of mind to clients who will be relying on this team to care for a loved one at home.

Finding a caregiver on your own can be a bit risky, especially if you consider that in our high tech age it’s easy to present false CV’s and to provide references from people who don’t exist.

In this case, all it takes is for the applicant to have a few friends standing by to impersonate previous clients and you won’t be any the wiser.

Checking into the background of a potential caregiver is not that easy to do on your own, whereas an agency such as CareChamp has access to data and information that the average man on the street cannot use.

The questions you’ll have about bringing someone strange into your home to care for a loved one won’t only revolve over the quality of care your elderly frail or disabled parent will receive, they’ll also be about safety and security in the home.

Will your parent be safe from elder abuse while your back is turned? Will the valuables in your home be safe? Will security measures be adhered to and used as they should be to protect your parent and your home?

Aside from all of this, you’ll be responsible for registering your caregiver for UIF and PAYE, along with all the other admin you’ll have to do to make sure that you’ve covered all your bases in terms of labour law and SARS.

CareChamp makes hiring a trusted caregiver easy

In fact, the most you’ll have to do is to decide on which caregiver you’d like to meet, based on profiles on the CareChamp website, and to decide on how the care plan should be tailored according to your requirements.

That you can trust a CareChamp caregiver implicitly on all fronts is made clear when you request a copy of the police clearance certificate and health certificate that’s required of every caregiver before joining this team.

What you’ll also have is proof that the caregiver you’re planning to hire has received caregiver training from NIDO Nursing (Pty) Ltd, which provides health care workers with a world class standard of training.

The CareChamp management team handles all the admin work on your behalf, and on top of this, they also make sure that you get regular reports about the care of your loved one.

Of course CareChamp loves to hear back about their caregivers, which is why they encourage clients to send in their own reports from time to time.

Contact CareChamp today to find out more about their gold standard caregivers, companions and registered nurses standing by to lend a trusted helping hand to all who need it.