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“When you choose Family Resource Home Care for your caregiving needs, you have 19 dedicated professionals who will shepherd you through the whole process. The family is never alone.”
Dir. of Business Development
Pam Stone, Director of Business Development
What I Do
My role at Family Resource Home Care is to spread the word that FRHC is an excellent and safe choice for your loved one. We do what we promise to do. We will always provide the best quality of service and we take all the family needs into consideration for each client.
I have had direct experience with caregiving and understand the responsibilities and challenges that go along with it. Therefore I have great respect for caregivers. The work they do is very hard, but it means so much to the people who need it.
Why Home Care
Shortly before I was married, I cared for my grandmother when her caregiver became ill. It was a hectic time with wedding arrangements to be made, but I was available and loved my grandmother.Nine years later, my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and our family was at a loss about how to care for him. We had no luck with hiring private caregivers and the available facilities didn’t really know how to treat people with dementia.
However, the biggest impact on me was when my mother-in-law moved in with us the last three months of her life. Her breast cancer had returned and spread. She was under hospice care, but my husband and I were her primary caregivers. Caring for her was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but it was also a chance to spend precious time with her. She always complained about being a burden to us, but really she wasn’t. My two daughters had time to spend with their Nana and my husband got to care for his mother the way she had cared for him.
My favorite client story.
I was in the office when a call came in requesting care for a gentleman leaving Group Health Hospital who needed 24 hour care. It turned out that he was my old Swedish professor at the University of Washington. I had the opportunity to observe our vice president, Sheila McKannay, assessing his needs and drawing up a detailed care plan to his specifications to insure comfort and dignity for the last days of his life.
It was bittersweet to reconnect with him after so many years. Still, we were able to share some fond memories and I witnessed the commitment and kindness that our caregiver gave to this wonderful man who had given so much to our community.
