The social worker at our local VA clinic made the contact with a local elder care center well known in the area (one I would have chosen first) and after a visit with the director who came to our home for the interview with my husband present, we were assigned a worker who has been wonderful. She fits right in and takes my husband's banter well. He always gives everyone a "hard time" jokingly but it can get wearing when it is daily, but she just shrugs it off and gets the chores done. He has a huge attention problem and is very easily distracted, but she calls him to task kindly and we both enjoy her. I did stay around the first 2 or 3 times she was here to help her locate anything she might need and also to see what reaction my husband would have as she worked with him. I think that helped and I will be doing that again this week as our regular gal is taking a two-week medical leave and we will have a different worker for those two weeks.

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