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How to stay at home as you age - from funding to finding a care worker

Staying at home as you age.

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When you invite a live-in care worker into a home, they’ll assist you with a lot of things…

When you invite a live-in care worker into a home, they’ll assist you with a lot of things…

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Hiring an in-home care or support worker

Hiring an in-home carer to look after elderly parents? Finally a guide to help you do it!

Increasingly families are hiring in-home carers to help ageing parents or relatives remain at home as they age. However, most families have little understanding of the relationship they are entering into from a

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Hiring an in-home care or support worker

Is Your Carer Doing A Good Job? Ask Yourself These Key Questions...

In our previous blogs, we have talked about what to look for in selecting an in-home carer, recognising that the decision is a highly personal one. Ensuring the person is trustworthy and has

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Hiring an in-home care or support worker

Personality Fit? Top Tips For Working out if a Carer is Right for You and Your Family

When looking for a carer, the question at the forefront of most people’s minds is ‘how will this carer get along with the person needing care?’ Particularly if the person needing care

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Hiring an in-home care or support worker

Top Five Things to Consider When Choosing Your Carer!

Placing a carer in your home, or that of a loved one is a big step. Ensuring the individual is trustworthy, of good character and highly experienced is crucial. It is also important

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Hiring an in-home care or support worker

Is my in-home carer an employee or independent contractor?

The first thing you need to think about when hiring an in-home carer is the type of relationship you are entering into with the carer. An in-home carer can be either an employee

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Hiring an in-home care or support worker

It's Carers Week - thank you!

It’s National Carers Week! A week to celebrate and recognise the important caring work done by 2.7 million unpaid carers in Australia. There will be events going on all over Australia

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Hiring an in-home care or support worker

How much should I pay an in-home carer?

People considering hiring an in-home carer often ask us ‘how much should I pay the carer per hour?’ Carers on the Careseekers website often state their hourly rate. While the average price is

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Hiring an in-home care or support worker

Check Check Check - The most important checks you should do before hiring a carer

Hiring a carer? Careseekers recommends that you do a number of checks yourself when meeting and hiring potential carers for yourself or a loved one. 1. National Police Check Certificate To be accepted

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