When it comes to choosing a home care provider for a senior, your choices are to hire a caregiver on your own or work with a senior home care agency to find the right person for your circumstances. Senior home care agencies are similar to staffing agencies, in that they recruit, screen, sometimes train, and place home-care providers while also attending to the “administrivia” of legal requirements, payroll taxes, and other necessary paperwork.
Choosing a Senior Home Care Agency: Getting StartedMany times the search for the right senior home care agency must be performed quickly because of an emergency medical condition. Other times people are able to plan ahead and research the various provider companies. Regardless of your timeline, if you decide to work with a senior home care agency, it’s important to think through your choices carefully.
You want to verify that the home care agency, as a business, is following all the necessary legal requirements to ensure that they are liable for the caregiver as their employee (and you are not). Because senior home care agencies employ their caregivers, they pay for all payroll taxes and worker's compensation insurance, which protects you should any injuries occur while a caregiver is providing care. (If a caregiver were working directly for you as an independent contractor, he or she would be able to sue you if they had a physical injury on the job or felt there were other abuses.)
Working with a Senior Home Care AgencyThere are several key points to keep in mind and questions to ask when working with a senior home care agency, specifically:
No Comments
Sign In | Join Disaboom Today!
Popular Blog Posts
