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It doesn't' matter what type of job you have....accountant, doctor, grocery store clerk...your employer expects you to be working while you're on the clock, not playing angry birds on your phone. People have become so rude with their phones. I actually joined a friend for breakfast one morning and she whipped out her phone and started doing something and I just stared at her until she put it down. I have seen couples out to dinner and they were each on their phone instead of talking or interacting with one another. it's rude and it's sad.
I've gotten off course here, but bottom line is you have hired this person, therefore you get to set the rules.
If you want your parent entertained call a clown.
My husband wants me with him as much as possible. I can't just sit and stare at him for hours on end. I have been stuck on that couch "being with him" for up to eleven hours straight (three consecutive football games on the tv -- and I despise football). I am thankful for my phone, my tablet, and my chromebook. I can read, do email, facebook, play games, while being ready to meet his next demand.
I hope there is a Contract between your Dad and the Caregiver which states what are her duties, cost per hour, if meals will be provided, etc.
I can understand how you feel. Whenever I stopped by my Dad's house and see the caregiver sitting on the sofa watching TV with my Dad, I was thinking shouldn't she be doing some chores. When my Dad said how much he enjoyed having the caregivers [he had 3 shifts each day] and how nice the house looked, I stopped questioning. If Dad was happy, I should be happy, too.
If a caregiver is hired by an institution such as a hospital or nursing home, she would be assigned other duties as well as the specific care tasks enumerated. These do not have to be specified in a job description.
In home care, the care giver is there for the client. If the client has any needs at all that can not be independently accomplished, the care giver is there to help (within the limits of her personal and/or professional ability). Part of her job is to pay attention and recognize these needs as they arise. A game or phone conversation should never be a distraction.
One important need might be the need for social interaction. If the client wants conversation or to express needs, she should have the full attention of the care giver. (regular breaks should be provided for the care giver the eat a meal or use her phone)
Yes, common courtesy and respect are owed to the client. The client is not only a human being with needs he/she is also the "boss" (or his family/representatives are).
May I ask you something about your caregiving situation? Is your caregiver on the scene for many hours a day? Are they a live-in?
Please let me tell you something about in-home caregivers having been one myself for almost 25 years, that most people don't know when they hire one of us.
We are not entertainers. When one of us is on a job hour after hour for some senior with dementia who doesn't even know what day it is, expect to see a phone come out at some point. If I'm working for you expect to see a laptop come out at some point. If your loved one is being well cared for, is clean, fed, and in a clean and healthy environment then if I were you, I would not complain too much to the good, private caregiver you're lucky to have.
Here's something else you might not know about us independent caregivers. We do a far better job caring for someone then agency help does because we're working for ourselves.
If all the tasks have been completed.
If the person they are supposed to be caring for is sleeping or other wise occupied then I do not see a problem with the phone. But if the person they are caring for needs help will the caregiver just drop the phone or will they finish the level of the game they are on?
If the play on the phone is hindering the job then they should not be on the phone.
And you did not mention it but...no photos of your loved one, no photos in the house, no photos of the outside of your house.
I beeped the horn, she slowly moved her baby carriage to the side of the road. It seems to be the norm, not the exception.
When we use to visit our son in NYC, everyone is at the crosswalk staring at their cell phones as they cross the road!!!
In my opinion, if the patient is home then she/he has some sort of life...then the answer is easy: -->The short answer is: NO.
BUT, it depends on what is going on; therefore, yes sometimes on the cell and NEVER consistently on the cell. (Why have the caregiver then?)
I don't care who you are, if you are on the cell phone, you AIN'T fully paying attention to the patient. :-D