In-home Senior Care in Madison, WI. - Compassionate care for seniors

Care: A full-Circle Experience

I am not a huge part of your Team, but I think my little contribution, with my client on Sunday mornings, has made a huge different in this man's life!! I don't mean to be patting myself on my back at all (!) ....I just love to share that his demeanor has turned around 180 degrees since I first started - I know of course that it is a combination of things...with all the wonderful caretakers he has...and that he has been healing and gaining strength since his Fall two summers ago....but just his personality...his love of life..he looks so forward to our chats (and from the sounds of it reading the notes he keeps personally – like a diary - he enjoys all of the Caretakers very much!) He just has a whole new positive attitude!! I love it!!! He loves to talk (!) and share not only historical experiences - he has a wealth of knowledge about history, etc. he loves to reminisce and share his Life Stories....and he is totally cognitively engaged in "today"....reading the newspaper cover to cover...a trait we share...he reads so much....when I first started with this client he was kind of"down" not happy....would always seem sad.....didn't have much to talk about.....and he would always talk about how awful his life is....how lonely he was....Now he is cheerful - laughs -

His passion is his garden and with his physical limitations he had not been able to accomplish much last year. This year - his yard worker fellow has helped him to plant - he goes out in the yard - loves to sit on his nice patio - and oversee the operations (!) ....on Father's Day we had a great morning together - I watered and I watered...and he watched and directed me from his Perch - he was so happy - smiling - very talkative - and his daughter was here visiting and he seemed very Proud to introduce me to her, and we had a lovely time together - he just is a new man!!!!! She said, if his new spirit has anything to do with the Care he gets from Midwest Home Care - then your Organization should get a five star rating!!!

That is what I love about doing home care. That is the model I had with my Mom - the caregivers I had working with me in caring for my Mom - all became friends of me/Mom, our family. They sat together with me at Mom's funeral and gave a Eulogy speech about their anecdotes. I know I only touch a small piece of the Families that are part of Midwest - but my experience with this client and giving him a "will to look forward to each week" has been inspiring. He just realizes that I/we are invested in him - care about him - are interested in him as a 90 year old person - not just push him aside and not honor his intellect, etc....and to me that is what Caring for the Elderly and the life circle is all about.

Ann D. (Caregiver for Midwest Home Care)