Here's what HouseWorks associates can do for you:

• Help client maintain routines, revive interests, and try new activities - anything from shopping the sales to attending a meeting for retired professionals.
  
• Help client stay in touch with friends, family, and the community.
  
• Read aloud from newspapers, magazines, novels, snail mail and e-mail.
  
• Help client organize family photos and mementos in albums. Listen to the stories.

• Take client to doctor's appointments. Coordinate with HouseWorks team to schedule follow-up, pick up prescriptions, clarify doctors' instructions, and report to family.
• Remind client to take medications on time and as directed. Make sure prescriptions are refilled on time.
• Encourage good nutrition. Prepare tasty meals that meet dietary needs. Offer enticing snacks and beverages throughout the day.
• Prepare foods to accomodate chewing and swallowing difficulties.
• Provide unobtrusive supervision. Tactfully redirect client from unsafe activity.
• Encourage safe exercise. Walk with client, do prescribed exercises together.
• Provide sensitive reminders to use cane or walker correctly.
  

• Prioritize jobs that aren't getting done; help with completion.
• Run errands with client: grocery store, bank, library, hairdresser, post office.
• Pick-up and straighten, dust, and vacuum.
• Wash and iron clothes. Change sheets.
• Clean out closets and cabinets. Help dispose of unwanted items.
• Clean out refrigerator. Make sure spoiled and expired food is discarded.
  

• Help client get dressed and undressed.
• Help client shower, shampoo, and shave.
• Help client use the toilet, protecting dignity and privacy.
• Style hair, help with make-up, trim nails, protect skin.
• Provide safe assistance getting in and out of bed, chairs, wheelchairs, and cars.
• Offer gentle massage to ease aches and stiffness.
• Put on elastic stockings and other supports.
  

HouseWorks associates bring a reassuring presence to our clients' homes. The typical response? A sigh of relief.