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Social Care Is Providing Life Assistance
Care workers are called upon to perform many tasks for their clients. We mostly think of a care worker as being their for just physical and medical assistance to the elderly. In most cases that is true. Assuring medications are taken at the right times, that external applications are applied properly and watched for visual or measurable changes, and that general movement is not restricted or causes additional medical problems are items sufficient to keep a care worker busy for a full work shift. Additional chores like personal hygiene, dressing and feeding come into play as the clients condition calls for.
Routine household chores might also be part of the required labors for a care worker depending on the ability of the client and the intervention available from the clients family members, neighbors or social agency.
The social care portion of the care workers job is wide ranging and again depends on the clients ability to perform physical and mental tasks on their own. Some may be fully cognizant of their financial and social matters but physically can’t write of bills or answer letters.
Other may need complete management of their affairs and the care giver needs to recognize failing abilities so that a certified social worker can be brought in when that stage of assistance is needed. Care workers are truly guardians of their clients lives and many times are the only ones who can assist in evaluation of someones needs for escalation of services both social and medical.