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Summary

Rates: From £900 per week depending on the level of care required.

Availability: 29th January 2018

About Me:

?‍⚕️ I’m a professionally trained English female carer with over 16 years of hands-on experience, specialising in dementia and Parkinson’s care, as well as companionship and general elderly support. I offer a compassionate, respectful, extremely patient and person-centred approach to everyone I care for. ✅ Excellent, checkable references available from doctors and a wide range of clients’ family members ✅ Skilled in personal care, companionship, medication management, and mobility assistance ✅ Preferably live-in care within Cornwall but daily, or respite care considered ✅ Committed to dignity, trust, and building genuine warm relationships with you and your family. Whether you need a short-term helping hand or long-term support, I bring professionalism, warmth, and reliability into your home. ? Please feel free to get in touch for a no-obligation chat or to request references.

Other Services:

Animal care (feeding/grooming/walking)

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Experience

Other Experience:

Jan 2015 to Date
Private care (live-in): Professor John Dancy, Mousehole, Cornwall.

Companion/carer (on a rota basis with another carer) to a 96 yr old retired professor in Cornwall. The gentleman (had recently lost his wife) and was becoming lonely and depressed, he also required help bathing, dressing and meal preparation. As a 26year old he contracted Polio which, in his 90's, left him reliant on his four wheeled walker and upper body strength to propel him along. Recently he became far weaker and, sadly, whilst I was Christmas on leave the family had to have him admitted to hospital on Boxing day 2017. As things stand it looks as though the family may decide to transfer him into a care home.

2014 - 2015
Private care (3-5hr shifts 6 days a week): Mrs Betty Searle, Camborne, Cornwall

A local lady with stage 4 kidney disease who had been falling over fairly regularly. Although she was living with her daughter and son-in-law, I was engaged for 3-4hrs a day to encourage her to drink the required 1 litre of liquid a day, cooking and general companionship/care. Sadly, upon arriving for work one morning, I was told that she had been taken into hospital after a bad fall resulting in a head injury and subsequently the doctor recommended that she be moved into a nursing home as the family felt they could no longer cope.

2013 - 2014 (Approximately 6 months)
Private care live-in: Marly Agnew, Penzance, Cornwall

I was employed as a live-in carer (on a live-in rota basis with one other carer), to look after Marley who had advanced dementia and end stage chronic kidney disease. She also suffered from swollen legs due to water retention.

My duties included washing/dressing, daily weight & blood pressure monitoring; meal preparation, washing/ironing, exercising her two dogs, medication, and making sure she drank the required daily intake of liquid. (Refs available from her daughter)

2008 - 2014 Convivium Care, Bath

For approximately five years I worked for Convivium care agency (based in Bath) as a live-in carer. The period of care work I undertook were varied in duration (from two week holiday respite cover to a period of three years 6 months). I have only listed the longer periods below:
Via Convivium Care Agency (Bath)
Live-in care: Professor John Stradling & Dr Peggy Stradling, Somerset

For 3 1/2 years I was employed as a live-in carer to a retired professor/doctor with dementia, and his wife (also a retired doctor) who needed some care after an accident left her unable to walk without the aid of crutches. Sadly, Peter died and his widow, Peggy, asked me to stay on to look after her. A year, or so, later Peggy, who was 93, felt that her health had deteriorated to the point where she no longer feels she wanted the responsibility of maintaining her large home in Somerset, and decided to move into a residential home in Oxfordshire to be closer to her children
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I am still in regular contact with her, and have checkable references, not only from her, but also from her sons (also retired doctors).

Via Convivium Care Agency (Bath)
Live-in respite care: Mrs Audrey Verity, Bath

For a 5 week period I was placed in Bath as a respite carer (Christmas period) for a lady with Vascular Dementia and arterial stenosis which can lead to sudden 'drop attacks'. She had also fractured her hip, and had a hip replacement shortly before I arrived (Refs available from her family).

I have excellent (checkable) references, not only from my clients but also provided by their children.

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Qualifications

Other Qualifications:

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Interests

Food: I really enjoy cooking varied foods from traditional British food to French; Chinese etc.

Music: I like a wide spectrum of music from Classical to the latest music trends.

TV: Period dramas; Murder mysteries; Comedies; Documentaries.

Films: Period dramas; Old classic movies; Rom Coms; Comedies; Murder mysteries.

Books: Cosy murder mysteries (P D James/Agatha Christie type); Thrillers and James Herriot type books.

Days Out: Visiting new places, Historic sites, Scenic or beach walks .

Other Interests: TV; Reading; Crosswords (particularly cryptic crossword); Puzzles; Board/Card games; Cricket; Anything to do with animals, particularly horses.

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