Comfort Keepers of Alexandria, Fairfax & Springfield

We help seniors live happy, healthy lives in the comfort of their own homes by providing quality, compassionate care and safety technology solutions to preserve independence and contribute to a better life. We do a national as well as a state background check on all of our employees – we also continue to do an annual national background check on all of our employees (we believe that we are the only homecare agency who adheres to this practice).

• We drug test our employees.
• We offer benefits to our employees.
• Our Comfort Keepers have been with us an average of 38 months.
• We are a Licensed Home Agency and we received no deficiencies during our last 3 day survey.
• All services are supervised by our Registered Nurse.
• We are bonded and insured.

We take an interactive approach to caregiving. Inter often refers to the experience between two people such as the word interpersonal. Active obviously refers to the motions or doings of the body. So when we put the word interactive together what we really mean is the experience between the caregiver and the senior occurs while they are doing an activity together. If we add caregiving or the assistance or support during an activity we have interactive caregiving or the experience that happens between two people while doing an activity whereby one is assisting the other.

In practical terms what does this mean? It means that individuals offering caregiving services should try at every turn to engage their senior in the activity he or she is doing at whatever level of functioning the senior can participate. This can be small things like when doing the laundry you let a senior fold a towel or towels and you fold along with the person. If the person becomes tired, you can offer to take over.