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A Heart for Caregiving

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This video highlights the profound connections LifeWorx caregivers build with the individuals they support. Sharing their experiences, the caregivers reflect on the importance of treating clients with respect, seeing beyond diagnoses, and embracing the unique lives and histories of those in their care.

Through meaningful interactions—like singing cherished songs, sharing stories, and rekindling happy memories—they demonstrate how caregiving goes far beyond routine tasks. It’s about nurturing joy, fostering dignity, and recognizing the whole person. The caregivers’ passion and dedication shine through as they explain how helping others brings purpose and fulfillment to their own lives.

Transcript

If you love and care about people, you will treat them with respect.

If you love and care about people you will give them the space that they want at the time when they want it.

I know the most wonderful people because of my job.

They are doctors, they are engineers, or teachers.

And they were very important people, and when they become old, some people forget about them.

When you live with somebody for that long, they become like a grandmother to you.

I want to help people.

You know, but it’s just my nature.

I like to dig out their inner child and find out, like, the one lady I worked with told me she had been a bobbysoxer and she had followed Frank Sinatra.

If you have love in your heart you will accept them for who they are.

She taught me how to sing Italian songs, the ones she liked, so we used to sing together.

It was fun talking to her about those memories. She got his signature and her father never knew, she used to have to sneak out.

We sing and we laugh, we dance, so she’s happy. When she’s happy I’m happy too.

I think it’s a good thing to see the whole person, not just the diagnosis or the glasses… hearing aid… there’s a person there.

A heart beating, a brain.

Yeah, to me that’s important.

It’s fulfilling at the end of the day that you know, somebody needed help and you can help them. Yeah.

Love.