Helping working adults manage their aging parents, i.e. dealing with medications, prescriptions, calling doctors, being the go-between that the parents can call so they dont call their working adult child at work -- they call you instead and you deal with them and fix the problem or contact the working adult child via email etc.
A friend of my daughter's has a job where she answers phones at home,but it has to be when her child is in bed and her husband is home to handle any things to do with the child. Still, it works for her.
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I got mine as a referral from someone else, who was another cat rescuer. Evidently the person was talking about how hard it was for her to keep up with her parents need just simple things like if a prescription runs out and you have to contact the doctor for a refill, or what can be sent directly to the home and what comes from the drugstore, etc. Our mutual friend mentioned I was always looking for additional work at home, and so it began. it lasted four or five years until they moved to a nursing home last fall. Now that is all taken care of and I dont have that work anymore.
You asking is ood for me too. How would I go about finding another position like that? Word of mouth, I guess. Maybe putting up notices in "safe" places like a church bulletin board. Obviously not nursing homes but possibly senior living centers, which is kind of where they were -- it wasn't super senior, but it was an adults only apartment community. Also, possibly work places -- this woman worked at CDC, so she was very busy and couldn't be dropping things for her parents phone calls, but she didn't require a full time caretaker for them. The recent move was because it was a more secure situation now that they are older. Her mom is my age (72) and has multiple sclersis so they always had a caretaker come in to help her during the day, but her husband did all her care at night, and he's around 85 now and his memory isn't so great. I was the one who had to keep track of his drugs and hers, and make sure they were ordered or prescriptions renewed etc. It took bursts of time and she paid me $18 and hour and I would bill her monthly. Some months it was 1-2 hours but other months it was 10-12 hours. It was a great service for the daughter because I was there to be the go between. It was occasionally very frustrating (dealing with insurance companies online, talking with nurses about wht drug might be substituted because the insurance company didn't want to pay fr a certain one, etc. - I HATE insurance companies and feel they have no business in medicine -- but that's another soapbox. The folks were very nice. In fact I think I will give them a call now justto say hi. It has been awhile.
Yes, she is local to me but not physically close. We are all in the Atlanta area, but none of us are actually in Atlanta.
How I got paid was that I kept a running log of the date, what I did, and how much time it took. At the end of the month I totaled that up and sent it to her. That gave her a written record of things done (i.e. ordered insulin supplies from X; claled Dr. Y's office about renewing the prescription for _______. Talked with John & compiled list of his current medications and checked with the insurance company online to see which were on automatic delivery. Time: 1.5 hours
Then I would email her the invoice which was just the itemized list & hours, then the hours totaled and multiplied by $18 which was my hourly rate. She is one of those people who pays everything online through her bank and so within a week or so, I would get one of those automatically processed bank checks for the amount.
We communicated through emails most of the time. That made it easy for her. I am on the computer a lot so she could reach me without having tomake a phone call, which is something she can't do much at work, phone calls. So she would email me some instruction, like call Dr. J and find out such and such, nd I would do that and then email back toher with the answer.
Aside from those suggested above...I knew someone who did Medical Transcription and worked from home. As far as I know, she made pretty good money doing it. It does require a certificate/training which varies by where you live and you may be able to do the course online/from home. Just be sure its certified. I am not sure how long it takes or what it costs, but its also an idea. She often did her work after her young child went to bed at night.
Otherwise, there's always freelancing depending on your skills and experience. Freelance writing, editing, graphic design, etc. If you know a second language, you could do translating.
I do medical billing from home. I did take a medical billing and coding course, it's not required but I don't think I would have gotten an interview without it.
In my younger life, I worked in a hospital and was a medical transcriptionist. However, when I tried to apply here, they werent interested because I had no "certificate." Eight years experience did not qualify me, and it would cost money to get certified so I forgot about that. I was also a legal secretary in an earlier life, for many years, and did that as a fill-in temp as well. However, technology has changed so much that those spaces where it is basically typing and/or editing dont exist anymore. Lots of doctors and attorneys use voice recognition software and dictate their own stuff that comes to their own computer or laptop where they edit it. Attorneys in the world I worked in did not type and process documents. Now they do. I even applied for part time work at Walmart and got no interest, and they hire old people all the time. Perhaps it was the college degree that got in the way. That's what friends have said. Don't say you have a college degree, they see that as trouble. Finding any job when you are over 65 is pretty tough.