Many patients and their loved ones find themselves overwhelmed with the stressors and tasks involved in providing care and companionship. What’s often called “caregiver burnout” can be mitigated through healthcare platforms like SitByCare by matching patients with a sitter. Signing up as a patient is easy and can be done by the patient or a third party. Within minutes of signing up, you can find sitters in your area that can meet your time, health, and economic requirements.
There are three options to sign up as a patient: Google, Facebook, or Email. Here, you can enter all your personal information and select your Medical Care facility which helps find sitters that are close to you. In the next step, you can also specify if you are signing up for an account as a patient or as a related third party. On the next screen you will be able to put in your patient’s identifying information: name, birthday, gender, and medical condition as well as hospital floor number and room number if applicable. Some optional questions which will allow optimal matches to sitters include the patient’s profession and hobbies. In light of the global pandemic, it is also important to provide a certificate of Covid vaccination. In the next step, there is also an option to add an emergency contact. The next important step is specifying the needs of the patient where you will be prompted to enter any specific needs which can include dietary restrictions, habits to know about, or anything that will allow the sitter to make sure the patient is comfortable and taken care of. Here you can also choose the preferred language to make sure there are no language barriers between sitter and patient which makes communication much easier for both parties. As for specifying the times you need a sitter you can choose from Weekday, Weekend, Overnight, or an immediate start. Finally, budget is very important when it comes to hiring a sitter as everyone comes from different economic backgrounds and it is important to find the care you need at the price range that works for your family. Using the slider you can choose from sitters who charge $15 (minimum wage) to $150 an hour.
Finally a patient can choose from a range of avatars to keep their identification private until they are ready to share it with a sitter . Once you select the avatar you’d like the signup process is done and you can start browsing through the sitters near you!
There is no greater gift than the gift of love. This is especially true when you’re dealing with someone who lives in a residential facility, where loneliness and feelings of abandonment can affect the resident’s wellbeing. Making the effort to provide companionship for someone and sharing conversation, thoughts, and memories can mean so much more than giving the person a piece of jewelry or new clothing.
Unfortunately, for so many of us, time is the one thing we have the least of. It consumes our jobs, our partners, our children, and the obligations of daily life. When we can, we carve out time to visit friends and relatives living in residential care facilities, but it probably doesn’t happen as often as we’d like, and that can make us feel guilty and add to the life stresses we’re already struggling with—but it doesn’t have to.
SitByCare health sitters have specially trained staff that go into facilities and spend time with our family and friends when we aren’t able to do so. These sitters can bring joy and companionship into the lives of the residents. If you have a friend or relative in residential care and live far away or are struggling to find time in your hectic schedule, you can arrange for a health sitter to fill in when you can’t be there.
Do you have a friend who is struggling unsuccessfully with the desire to visit someone in residential care? If so, you can give the gift of love to your friend who can pass it along to the resident. How? SitByCare has a gift card program that enables you to cover the cost of a visit by a health sitter. The gift cards are available in a wide range of denominations that can fit into any budget.
You can give this gift of love to your friends who can share it with their loved ones by enabling them to provide the companionship of a sitter to the people they care about, making a big difference in two lives! Giving a gift of love that can be passed along to a third party—perhaps someone you don’t even know personally—can spread the love to where it is so keenly needed and so deeply appreciated.
For more information on SitByCare services and gift cards, visit https://sitbycare.com/.
