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- Why Friends for Friends?
Are you interested in keeping your spouse or parent at home another year longer? Or would you prefer to pay an agency’s overhead?
Friends for Friends offers a quality, affordable option to help you care for your loved ones at home. Friends for Friends, a homecare registry, provide qualified CNAs and companions to fulfill your caregiving needs.
Q. What’s the difference between an agency and a registry?
A. Homecare agencies employ their own caregivers, run the necessary background checks, take care of the payroll taxes and insurance and assign the caregiver who will care for your loved one. Agencies are also responsible for Workman’s Comp., taxes, and other insurance.
Homecare registries, such as Friends for Friends,carefully screens prospective caregivers, runs extensive background checks and provides two or three caregivers to meet the family, giving all involved an opportunity to choose the caregiver which will complement the clients wants, needs and hobbies in order to establish a close relationship.
Q. How is payment made?
A. The client writes one check weekly to the caregiver and one check every two weeks to Friends for Friends.
Q. Is it difficult to keep track of payments and taxes?
A. Clients are provided with time slips which helps them keep track of the caregiver’s payroll. At year’s end, simply gather the time slips and bring them to your accountant or tax preparer and fill out a 1099.
The advantages of working with a homecare registry are many.
- The client or the family can choose who will be providing care.
- The caregiver and the client have the opportunity to establish a close relationship because they’ve been matched as closely as possible according to personality traits, likes and dislikes.
- There is continuity of care because the caregiver’s assignment is to work only for one client, something that is very important, especially if the client has a form of dementia.
- The client will not be introduced to a new caregiver every few weeks as can sometimes happen with a homecare agency.
