I would also put postings up on church bulletin boards and another good place is small town Laundromats. I go to one in an adjoining little community and am always amazed at what is on their bulletin board.
I do recommend meeting in a very public place, with a friend the 1st meeting. Get a copy of their identification and their license plate. Don't accept any id that has a different address then where you will meet the client. Share this information with a couple friends. Better safe then sorry.
Good luck! You shouldn't have any problem getting a job in today's world.
Lea, while this is not an employment board, the quandary of what to do after spending years or decades taking care of family is often something that comes up.
1) Write a resume and upload it to indeed.com (a job board) or other such. Also, take the CV to local nursing homes. Many agencies require one to have some experience in the institutional setting (here it is often two years) before hiring someone.
2) Go to your word-of-mouth networks or nextdoor.com. Certainly after forty years there are descendants of your former clients who can vouch, or who may have even seen you in the caregiving role.
3) Enter another field entirely.
A neighbor of mine had offers to caregive around the time siblings took mom from her home where she'd been living there with him, the CG. By then he was too burnt out on caregiving in general, so he chose option 3.
I would also put postings up on church bulletin boards and another good place is small town Laundromats. I go to one in an adjoining little community and am always amazed at what is on their bulletin board.
I do recommend meeting in a very public place, with a friend the 1st meeting. Get a copy of their identification and their license plate. Don't accept any id that has a different address then where you will meet the client. Share this information with a couple friends. Better safe then sorry.
Good luck! You shouldn't have any problem getting a job in today's world.
1) Write a resume and upload it to indeed.com (a job board) or other such. Also, take the CV to local nursing homes. Many agencies require one to have some experience in the institutional setting (here it is often two years) before hiring someone.
2) Go to your word-of-mouth networks or nextdoor.com. Certainly after forty years there are descendants of your former clients who can vouch, or who may have even seen you in the caregiving role.
3) Enter another field entirely.
A neighbor of mine had offers to caregive around the time siblings took mom from her home where she'd been living there with him, the CG. By then he was too burnt out on caregiving in general, so he chose option 3.