Live-In Caregiver & Companion – $6,000/Month + Housing
We are seeking a warm, gentle, experienced, and highly dependable live-in caregiver and companion for a 79-year-old woman living in her home in Eugene, Oregon.
Compensation is $6,000 per month, plus housing in a private bedroom with a shared bathroom. The position is Wednesday through Sunday, including every weekend. Mondays and Tuesdays are the caregiver’s regular days off. Weekend availability is an essential requirement of this position. Driver's License and your own vehicle - required.
Above all, we are looking for someone with a genuinely kind, calm, and gentle personality. The right person will be patient, emotionally steady, an excellent listener, highly organized, and someone who brings a peaceful and reassuring presence into the home.
Our mother has dementia and anxiety and cannot be left alone. She does best with people who take the time to listen to her, move at a comfortable pace, and approach caregiving with warmth, patience, and respect.
Dementia can mean repetition, confusion, significant anxiety, resistance to care or changes in routine, and unpredictable days. We need someone who has experience with dementia, understands these challenges, and can remain calm, patient, reassuring, and persistent through difficult moments.
We are hoping to find someone who genuinely enjoys spending time with older adults and wants to develop a caring and trusting relationship with her.
This is a long-term, live-in position, and finding the right personality and lifestyle fit is extremely important to our family.
ABOUT THE POSITION:
Responsibilities include providing companionship and emotional support, helping with daily routines and personal care as needed, medication reminders and organization, mobility assistance and fall prevention, preparing healthy home-cooked meals three times a day, light household tasks and organization, transportation to appointments and errands, and communicating with family and other members of the care team.
An important part of the position is helping our mother continue to enjoy a calm and fulfilling daily life. This might include going on nature walks, taking gentle outings, going to the grocery store together, having conversations, preparing meals together, sitting outside, or simply providing warm and reassuring companionship at home.
Our mother can experience significant anxiety related to her dementia. We are looking for someone who understands how to remain calm and reassuring when she is anxious, confused, repetitive, or resistant to care.
This position also includes occasional nighttime wake-ups. The right person must understand that caring for someone with dementia does not always fit neatly into traditional working hours and must be comfortable providing reassurance or assistance during the night when needed.
LEAD CAREGIVER & CARE COORDINATION RESPONSIBILITIES:
This person will also serve as the lead caregiver in the home and will be responsible for helping coordinate the overall caregiving schedule.
Our mother cannot be left alone, so it is essential that there is always appropriate caregiver coverage in place.
The family will be responsible for finding and hiring additional respite caregivers. However, we need our live-in caregiver to be highly organized and take responsibility for coordinating the day-to-day schedule with those caregivers, communicating about coverage, and helping make sure there are no gaps in care.
This requires someone who is proactive, dependable, organized, and comfortable taking ownership of the caregiving schedule rather than waiting for family members to manage every detail remotely.
You will also communicate regularly with our family and the other caregivers to help ensure that everyone is informed and that our mother receives consistent care.
AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR FAMILY:
Our mother also has an adult son with disabilities who has been an incredibly important part of her life and identity as a mother. He currently lives nearby with his own full-time caregiver, but maintaining their relationship and helping them continue to spend meaningful time together is very important to our family.
We would love to find a caregiver who will help facilitate and encourage this relationship by coordinating visits with his caregiver, planning walks, picnics, outings and dinners together, and helping our mother feel confident and supported spending time with her son.
Over time, we would also like to encourage occasional single-night overnight visits at her home, with appropriate caregiver support in place.
For most of her life, caring for and spending time with her son was a central part of our mother’s identity. As her dementia has progressed and she has become unable to care for him independently, she has lost some of that connection and sense of purpose.
One of our hopes is to find a caregiver who understands how meaningful this relationship is and will actively help our mother continue to be a mother to her son in the ways she still can.
IMPORTANT: PLEASE CONSIDER THE LIVE-IN LIFESTYLE BEFORE APPLYING:
This is not a traditional shift-based caregiving job with free housing attached. We are looking for someone who genuinely wants a home-centered, live-in caregiving lifestyle and understands that being a consistent and steady presence is an important part of the position.
The caregiver will have Mondays and Tuesdays off. Wednesday through Sunday—including weekends—we need someone whose primary commitment is caring for our mother and being a consistent presence in the home.
While there will naturally be personal time and flexibility, our mother cannot be left alone. Any time away from the home during working days needs to be coordinated with the caregiving team so that appropriate coverage is in place.
This position is not a good fit for someone who plans to maintain another job, attend school full-time, or have significant outside commitments during their five working days.
We encourage applicants to carefully consider whether this schedule and lifestyle fit their personal life and long-term plans before applying.
Our mother lives in a humble, modest residence. The caregiver will have a private bedroom and a shared bathroom.
A vehicle is not provided. Applicants must have a reliable car, valid driver’s license, and appropriate insurance.
There are other caregivers and involved family members providing support, so you will not be managing everything alone. However, we are looking for someone who wants to become a trusted, long-term presence in our mother’s life and take a leadership role in helping her home and caregiving team run smoothly.
THE RIGHT PERSON:
We are looking for someone who is:
- Warm, gentle, patient, and emotionally steady
- Experienced and comfortable caring for someone with dementia
- Able to manage anxiety, repetition, confusion, and resistance with patience and persistence
- Comfortable with occasional nighttime wake-ups
- Available and committed to working Wednesday through Sunday, including every weekend
- Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable coordinating a caregiving schedule
- Able to communicate clearly with respite caregivers and family members
- Responsible for making sure appropriate caregiver coverage is coordinated so our mother is never left alone
- A good cook who enjoys preparing healthy, home-cooked meals
- Dependable and comfortable taking ownership and initiative
- Comfortable providing personal care and mobility assistance as needed
- Someone who enjoys helping create meaningful activities, outings, and family time
- Comfortable helping our mother maintain a close and meaningful relationship with her adult son with disabilities
- Interested in a long-term position and genuinely suited to a live-in caregiving lifestyle
- Able to drive and has their own reliable vehicle
TO APPLY:
Please send us a thoughtful introduction telling us about yourself, your caregiving experience, your experience working with dementia and anxiety, your current living and work situation, and why a live-in caregiving position appeals to you.
Please also tell us about any experience you have coordinating other caregivers, managing schedules, running a household, or taking responsibility for making sure someone has continuous care coverage.
Finally, please tell us a little about your life outside of work and how you envision your personal life fitting around a Wednesday-through-Sunday live-in caregiving schedule that includes weekends and occasional nighttime wake-ups.
We ask these questions because we want to be completely transparent about the level of presence, organization, leadership, and commitment this position requires.
We are looking for the right person to build a genuine, trusting, and long-term relationship with our mother and family.
Pay: $6,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person
