Caregiving involves providing physical and emotional care for friends or family members who need assistance. It commonly refers to helping those who are elderly, disabled, ill, or have mental health issues. A caregiver's responsibilities can include assisting with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, and meals as well as overseeing medications, appointments, and transportation needs. They also provide companionship, emotional support, and health monitoring. To be successful, caregivers require entrepreneurial skills like seeing opportunities, planning, goal-setting, leadership, and persuasion to efficiently meet clients' varied needs.
Caregiving involves providing physical and emotional care for friends or family members who need assistance. It commonly refers to helping those who are elderly, disabled, ill, or have mental health issues. A caregiver's responsibilities can include assisting with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, and meals as well as overseeing medications, appointments, and transportation needs. They also provide companionship, emotional support, and health monitoring. To be successful, caregivers require entrepreneurial skills like seeing opportunities, planning, goal-setting, leadership, and persuasion to efficiently meet clients' varied needs.
Caregiving involves providing physical and emotional care for friends or family members who need assistance. It commonly refers to helping those who are elderly, disabled, ill, or have mental health issues. A caregiver's responsibilities can include assisting with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, and meals as well as overseeing medications, appointments, and transportation needs. They also provide companionship, emotional support, and health monitoring. To be successful, caregivers require entrepreneurial skills like seeing opportunities, planning, goal-setting, leadership, and persuasion to efficiently meet clients' varied needs.
• Caregiving is providing care for the physical and
emotional needs of a family member or a friend at home. • Is most commonly used to address impairments related to old age, disability, a disease or a mental disorder. CAREGIVING
• Caregiving gives us the opportunity to connect, love,
show affection, reminisce and compassionate and empathetic towards an individual for whom we care. CAREGIVER
• Person who provides any type of physical and
emotional care an ill or disabled person or a loved one at home. • Someone who is actively engaged in providing care and needs to another such as chronically ill, disabled or aged family member or friend. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF A CAREGIVER 1. Assisting with personal care:
• Bathing and grooming, dressing,
toileting, and exercise 2. Basic food preparation:
• Preparing meals, shopping, housekeeping,
laundry, and other errands 3. General health care
• Overseeing medications and prescriptions
usage, appointment reminders and administering medicine 4. Mobility assistance:
• Help with getting in and out of a
wheelchair, car or shower 5. Personal supervision:
• Providing constant companionship and
general supervision 6. Transportation:
• Driving to and from activities, running
errands, and help getting in and out of wheelchair-accessible vehicle 7. Emotional support
• Being a stable companion and supporter
in all matters personal, health-related and emotional 8. Home organization:
• Help with organizing, packing or cleaning
for a trip, general house care and cleaning. 9. Health monitoring
• Following a care plan and noticing any
changes in the individual’s health, recording and reporting any differences • PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCY ENTREPRENEURIAL
• Knowing your industry inside out, and being able to
exploit that knowledge to create new opportunities. • Describe someone who makes money by starting their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity and taking risks. ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAITS ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAITS THAT A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PERSON SHOULD POSSESS 1. Opportunity seeker
• Able to recognize and seize opportunities
to build up the business. 2. Patient
• Must be able to put up with a lot of
demanding tasks in his or her line of work. 3. Prudent.
• Should be rational rather than emotional
in handling obstacles and making decisions. He/she should also be firm enough when making decisions without hurting others. 4. Sociable • Personality factors such as emotional stability, personal relations, sociability, consideration, and tactfulness are important contributors to the entrepreneur’s success. An ideal entrepreneur must maintain good relations with costumers to be able to establish a relationship that will encourage them to continue to patronize agency’s services. 5. Demand for efficiency and quality.
• One should strive for excellence to give
the best quality product or service. 6. Systematic
• Should be orderly and organized.
7. Flexible • As a caregiver, you usually have a flexible schedule for seeing clients. You can take appointments at various times of the day, whenever is convenient for you. You can also choose whether to work directly with customers or stay in with the clients, you must manage your time wisely to be flexible. 8. Technical knowledge
• A responsible caregiver is always updated with
technical knowledge and its application. 9. Sense of independence and self- confidence • Develop trust in yourself that you can render the best service to clients especially to elders 10. Healthy
• You should be in good health and
optimistic at all times. You should possess a sound mind and body to cope with challenges of caregiving. PECs ARE CLASSIFIED INTO CLUSTERS • A. ACHIEVEMENT CLUSTER • B. PLANNING CLUSTER • C. POWER CLUSTER A. ACHIEVEMENT CLUSTER
• 1. OPPORTUNITY-SEEKING AND WITH INITIATIVE
• One of the requirements in entrepreneurship is the capacity to look for business opportunities. He is not afraid to do new things and put new things together to make things happen. • He acts to expand the business with new ideas, products or services.He entrepreneur identifies the present and future needs of the people and • A successful entrepreneur takes risk with a strong sense of self-confidence. 2. RISK-TAKING
• An entrepreneur gets things done, overcomes
obstacles and meets challenges. An entrepreneur enters into business ventures where one can shape or mold a situation. If he/she fails, he/she does not look at it as as failure, but a lesson to be learned. 3. PERSISTENCE
• One takes action in the face of a significant obstacle and
identifies various alternatives to improve service to consumers. • One takes responsibility for what is needed to achieve goals and objectives 4. COMMITMENT
• The entrepreneur strives to keep the customers satisfied
with excellent services • One does all the tasks at the right time with excellence • Once accepts and completes the job or services right on schedule 5. DEMAND FOR EFFICIENCY AND QUALITY • One finds ways to do the work better, faster and cheaper • Once acts to do things that meet the standard of excellence • One develops or uses procedures to ensure that the work is completed on time
B. PLANNING CLUSTER • 1. SYSTEMATIC AND GOOD PLANNING • The entrepreneur lays out plans carefully, follows up progress reports and gets feedbacks to achieve set goals. • One must know how to conceptualize and plan for the total operations of the business. One also develops and uses step-by- step plans to reach goals 2. GOOD DECISION-MAKING • Entrepreneurs make decisions. Being creative and innovative, they always make decisions to improve their products and create new products or services. • There are six distinct phases of making decisions:
• Identify the problem
• Gather data about the problem • Analyze the data gathered. • Formulate alternative solutions • Choose the best solution • Implement the solution. • 3. GOAL-SETTING • Sets clear and specific goals. The objectives of the business must be realistic and attainable. Goals should be SMART: • S-SPECIFIC • M-MEASURABLE • A-ATTAINABLE • R-RESULTS-BASED • T-TIME BOUND • 4. INFORMATION-SEEKING • The entrepreneur seeks information from clients, supplies or competitors. You need to be globally competitive in terms of learning new things and in acquiring technologies which are important in producing goods and services. C. POWER CLUSTER • 1. LEADERSHIP • The hallmark of all successful entrepreneurs is to keep going despite any setbacks. They are the people who are task-oriented and effective planners. There are several leadership traits of successful entrepreneurs. They are as follows: • SELF-ESTEEM- it is a high sense of one’s own self • OPTIMISM- the entrepreneurs is optimistic. He is molded with a boundless font of optimism that never seems to end. • DIGNITY- entrepreneurs treat their workers with respect. • HARDWORK- successful entrepreneurs are hardworking. They always attribute their success to hard work. According to Thomas A. Edison, success is 99% perspiration and only 1% inspiration. There are many successful businessmen who started from nothing except hard work and determination and now they are billionaires. • 2. PERSUASIVE AND GOOD AT NETWORKING • Uses strategies to influence or persuade people. • Acts to develop and maintain business contracts.