Iggy: The Comfort of Being Heard
Last Updated April 5, 2025 1 Min WatchOur caregiver Iggy reflects on the power of listening—and how building real relationships brings comfort and connection to caregiving.
Transcript
I’ve worked in hospital settings. LifeWorx is more personal—it’s more one-on-one, so it’s more intimate.
You create your own personal relationship. You become not like a client-employer—you become like friends, family, that significant person in the client’s life.
90% of the job is listening. And listening to the clients really, I think, brings a level of comfort to them.
You, as a caregiver, you spend a lot more time with the clients than sometimes even their family members.
So you become that listening ear, that comforter they’re looking for.
Listening, talking, interacting—and sometimes giving the client your point of view from a different angle—that can bring a lot of perspective to their lives.
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