Hello, potential CDPAP care team member. I am just a fellow home care aid (Marcie) trying to put together a team to care for three individuals - all senior women, one in Scottsville, one at The Addison senior home in Henrietta and one in Irondequoit in the lovely hamlet called Summerville. They range from easy to more challenging to care for. They were fascinating, courageous, and amazing women when they were younger and they are still amazing!
You can work as little or as much as you like per week and days or overnights. The schedule is 24 hours for at least two of the women who needs care. Often one works a twelve hour shift, but typically your person sleeps for part of that time which gives you some down time. I am writing this ad because it is difficult to find people to do this work here in the US. But it's great work so that makes no sense. You even get to go on walks, visits to friends and relatives, field trips to the cinema or museums, and shopping trips with the person you care for! (two of the women do not have pets, I don't know yet about the third). You can even take them to your own home sometimes. It's what you work out with the care receiver and their loved ones and me.
As a team we will use a set pattern of working where possible, but for weekly fine tuning we could use an online calendar for scheduling. My name is Marcie and I am relatively new to adult home care, but I like it. I did however take care of my own mother for many years all the way through hospice. After her passing craing for other people's Moms is my new career! I have degree in biology and education.
Home care is a wonderful job, it is kind of like babysitting for adults. If you have ever enjoyed how babysitting requires one to think on your feet, be a very loving and creative problem solver, and to experience a job that feels so very human and very vital, as well as take mental and potty breaks when needed, then home care aide work is for you. You will find yourself also helping not just the one person you might be focusing on, but also meeting and interacting with others who love and visit the care receiver such as friends and relatives, pets, and neighbors, and health care workers.
It's great work that is in high demand. Spending the day with someone in their world and in a home nvironment feels almost like a spiritual retreat: the weather, human friendhsip and love, the seasons - it's great for a job!
Generally in home care work you can work for an agency, or you can work and be payed privately, or through long- term care insurance, or you can now be payed, as a of a few short years ago, through a wonderful program called Consumer Directed Personal Care Program (CDPAP) funds: New York Sate is one of a few states that has instituted the possibility for people who make a bit more than the Medicaid limit to anyways qualify for Medicaid home care if they put their extra income in a pooled trust and spend down their assets ahead of time with the allowance of keeping home and car. They can send bills to the pooled trust to pay for anything they choose from regular bills such as mortgage, rent, and utilities to memberships or restaurant tabs, furnishings, clothing, food, and funeral arrangements, etc. Upon passing anything left in the Trust stays in the Trust to help others. So it is something for people who generally use all their income each month, but have income that exceeds. Because it is based on Consumer choice the person requiring home care has to choose their own employees to care for them. Depending on their level of health care needs it may mean they need more than one person to care for them. This is common in the world of home care and such people can choose to communicate with one another to figure out a tentative schedule for covering the hours each week. This enables some flexibility relative to other types of work. It also enables team members to share with one another care giving tips and supportive anecdotes and stories which improves the level of care provided and adds meaning to the job. A shared notebook detailing the days experiences and medicine and therapy log also helps inform subsequent workers of pertinent medical interventions.
The teams I am offering qualified persons to join are through one of the local agencies which oversees CDPAP (CCOR Rochester CCORHome.com). The pay is $17.68 an hour and they are the only agency that pays overtime. They will pay 10 hours beyond the usual $40 and you get time and a half or $26 and change. To become an employee of CCOR you need to go through an application to be able to work. It is just filling out paper work, a telephone interview and then providing them proof through a physical with your doctor that you can perform the duties of the job. They do require that you be negative for Tb and positive for measles immunity. I just did a blood test for each. I ended up needing to have one shot for MMR vax. I was able to sign a refusal waiver for HepB, and flu shots. I think I needed to have two shots of COVID but I can't remember. So its very painless.
Please email me to this craigslist ad if you would like to know more! email with you soon! Marcie
