CMK Home Care, an Arlington business, offers a range of services to help family caregivers manage the many challenges of caring for an aging loved one.
A member of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, Carmel Murphy-Kotyan is owner and director of CMK Home Care.
Carmel, an Arlington resident, provided information about her services. She noted that she carefully selects an experienced staff of compassionate, reliable and ethical companions, home health aides and certified nurse’s aides, most of whom are college educated with diverse and interesting backgrounds.
“Our goal is to add quality to each of our client’s days, through intuitive and responsive care, practical help and encouragement,” she wrote. “Our caregivers are fully vetted and CORIed, and an opportunity is given for clients to meet caregivers before any work begins.”
While there are no minimum hours, CMK Home Care is available for clients’ care needs 24/7.
CMK’s elder-care program offers the following services:
Light housework and laundry
Household errands and grocery shopping
Meal prep and cleanup
Personal care and dressing
Medication reminders
Transportation to appointments and social activities
Companionship
Supervision for cognitive decline
End-of-life comfort care
Daily check-in phone calls
CMK’s respite case-management program offers family caregivers help with:
Research and referral to elder activities /education
Household maintenance consisting of assistance and oversight of household bills
Organizing, decluttering and making donation
Readying home for departure to or return from long-term vacation
Manage schedules of privately hired aides
Back-up emergency care when needed
Assistance with long-term facility search and placement
Weekly reporting
Escorted rides
Other concierge services as required
Why we do it:
Carmel started CMK Home Care because her years of working in the aging industry as a housing advocate to elders and as a hands-on caregiver, has shown her the real need for practical, compassionate care services for our aging parents and their families.
She knows the stress and exhaustion that family caregivers experience in their efforts to care for their loved one. They are squeezed daily by a multitude of commitments to other family members, work, community and friends, with little time left for themselves.
Taking a holistic approach to this problem, CMK offers a twofold solution, through elder-care services and respite case-management programs.
Reach CMK at its website, on Facebook or call 781-266-8985
This news announcement was published Thursday, March 9, 2017.
