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Caregivers and Personal Assistants: How to Find, Hire and Manage the People Who Help You (Or Your Loved One!)

By Alfred H. DeGraff

This unique resource will show you how to find and hire quality help providers - when and where you need them - and how to keep them longer. You will be in control of the quality of help you receive, because you will first control the quality of your help providers. Your relationship with family caregivers, agency aides, or personally employed PAs (personal assistants) will maximize respect and trust - and minimize stress. You will find step-by-step strategies for the recurring RISHTMP Cycle of recruiting, interviewing, screening, hiring, training, managing, and parting ways with your paid help providers. Planning strategies also advise you and family caregivers how to live in harmony. Your need for assistance is balanced with their need to set limits on the help they can provide.

Avoiding Attendants from Hell: A Practical Guide to Finding, Hiring and Keeping Personal Care Attendants

by June Price

Avoiding Attendants from Hell is a comprehensive, "how to" guide for individuals who are physically disabled as well as professionals, caregivers and supportive family members involved in the independent living process. The author has almost two decades of first-hand experience with live-in and live-out Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) who make it possible for her to live independently. Reliance on others for her daily care, however, has been lifelong as she was born with a rare, neuromuscular disease, Spinal Muscular Atrophy—Type II.

Enhancing Independence: A Personal Attendant Training Manual

by Missouri Model Spinal Cord Injury System

Provides step by step assistance in personal care for persons with SCI. Updated in 2003, this manual is available free in PDF format on the Internet (208 pages).

Hiring and Management of Personal Care Assistants for Individuals with SCI

by Debra L Burdsall, MPH, OTR SCI Project at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

A booklet that covers all aspects of personal care assistants - from locating and hiring, to training. Includes forms, checklists and resources.

Personal Care Assistants (SCI InfoSheet)

By University of Alabama 

Offers guidelines and ideas on employing and managing a PCA. Topics include advertising, interviewing, and qualities to consider when selecting a PCA. Can be used by rehab service providers with their clients.