text: Is this a 24 hr. position?  Depending on what the person needs, it can sound like this.\nMorning: prepare breakfastmay need assistance in eating, assist in shower/bath/washing and grooming, and dressing. help may be required in transfer or walking.\nLunch: prepare lunch, may need assistance in eating. May need to help assist to bathroom.  Should not let person sit for more than a couple of hours as they could then have breakdown of the skin.  Entertain as needed.\nDinner: prepare dinner. may need assist eating. oh. and you need to clean up dishes after meals.  Assist person as needed.\nNight: help person to dress for bed, and to get into bed.\nThere are so many different things to being a caretaker, suffice it to say that all activities of daily living.  Think about what you do everyday without thinking about it, and thats what a caretaker helps people with.\n\n\nThe most difficult thing was finding out that one of the old women I took care of was hoarding her pills unerneath her pillow and I found them, and turned her in to the agency.  If I hadn't found them she would probably died while I was taking care of her.\nAlso when I worked at a nursing home, I had to clean up a dead person.