My sister & I are caretakers for my mother, 95, with dementia, and we are considering hiring cleaning help and/or home caretakers to sit with my mother so that we can get a break!! We personally know of 2 households in our town who have had to deal with caretakers (from different agencies) bringing in bedbugs to their home, and in one case, the elderly woman had to be moved to a hotel for a couple of weeks while they de-contaminated her house. I just would not want to deal with this effort and expense, along with everything else that we do, but I don't know how common this problem is. Am I overly concerned? Have others had to deal with it, and is there any way that the agencies can be held liable, or can they screen their employees (probably not)? Thank you for this great forum.
If you don't have any traffic through the house except your sister, you and the aids it is easy to prove who brought them in.
Bed bugs are no fun and easily spread with an infestation, I don't think you can be to careful if this is an issue. It is wise to due your due diligence and cya in the contract.
Never once have I seen any bedbugs. I am not saying that it doesn’t happen but I have no idea how common it is.
All I can recommend is to avoid any agencies that you have heard about with incidents regarding bedbugs.