You should not, as a caregiver be doing this. You will be looked at with great suspicion. This looks to families like elder abuse. You are hired to help; that you have a good relationship is lovely, but it is an abuse of that relationship to try to change it into a friendship.
Discuss this with your agency, not with a Forum of strangers. They will, I am quite certain, level with you on the reasons you should not be doing this.
Yes, you can get fired if the homecare agency has a policy about visiting and spending time with clients outside of your scheduled hours.
Most homecare agencies have some kind of policy like this in their employee handbook because an agency does not want their caregiver staff getting too friendly with a client or their family. This can lead to a client or their family "poaching" a caregiver away from the agency and hiring them privately.
You can probably be fired for anything other than being part of a protected class, race, religion, and so on.
Do any of your employment materials address this kind of thing?
Mostly an employer would worry about this if you were performing services or were being compensated, or if they thought it was a liability issue.
Did you do anything for them while you visited? Did they give you anything? Were you wearing the company uniform? Did you use the access code to their home provided to your employer?
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You will be looked at with great suspicion.
This looks to families like elder abuse.
You are hired to help; that you have a good relationship is lovely, but it is an abuse of that relationship to try to change it into a friendship.
Discuss this with your agency, not with a Forum of strangers. They will, I am quite certain, level with you on the reasons you should not be doing this.
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The one that matters is the one you work for.
Most homecare agencies have some kind of policy like this in their employee handbook because an agency does not want their caregiver staff getting too friendly with a client or their family. This can lead to a client or their family "poaching" a caregiver away from the agency and hiring them privately.
Do any of your employment materials address this kind of thing?
Mostly an employer would worry about this if you were performing services or were being compensated, or if they thought it was a liability issue.
Did you do anything for them while you visited? Did they give you anything? Were you wearing the company uniform? Did you use the access code to their home provided to your employer?