Meet the Fort Wayne Comfort Keepers®
Our Senior Caregivers Make the Difference
Comfort Keepers of Fort Wayne hires as caregivers only those people who have a servant’s heart—the natural gift to put others’ needs first. Our senior caregivers—whom we call Comfort Keepers—are the difference in Comfort Keepers care. They have the natural drive to help others. In fact, we hire only people we would feel comfortable sending to our own parents’ homes.
To become a Comfort Keeper, applicants must complete a thorough screening process, which results in hiring only one or two of every 100 candidates who apply. The process includes multiple interviews and background and reference checks. If we wouldn’t hire you to help us in our home, we wouldn’t hire you to go into somebody else’s house.
After being hired, Comfort Keepers complete extensive orientation and training before they serve their first client. Classes completed by Comfort Keepers include CPR, first aid, senior nutrition, home safety and other practical senior care instruction. They also complete ongoing training to maintain a high level of in-home care skills.
We carefully match each client with a Comfort Keeper whose personality and interests—as well as skills and needs—mesh well. We’ve found this process of matching seniors with caregivers helps us achieve the most favorable outcome for each Comfort Keepers client, and helps form the basis of strong and healthy relationships.
Another Home Care Difference: Interactive Caregiving™
Comfort Keepers are specially trained in delivering a distinctive brand of non-medical, in-home care, which we call Interactive Caregiving™. Through Interactive Caregiving™, Comfort Keepers engage clients in an invigorating mix of activities that enrich their lives physically, mentally, emotionally and socially. This helps them achieve as high a level of independence and quality of life as possible. Comfort Keepers intersperse these activities in their schedule of homemaking and personal homecare services.
Interactive Caregiving™ may include favorite pastimes, walks in the neighborhood, visits with friends, trips to church and community activities, meal preparation, or reminiscing and engaging in conversation. This approach to senior care, according to research, enhances seniors’ physical and mental health, independence and enjoyment and quality of life.