In retrospect, Home Instead® Care Professional of the Month Edrina Hammond is pleased that her mother wasn’t fulfilled as a retiree and wanted to rejoin the workforce.
Then Edrina took note when her mother, Cathy Hammond, joined Home Instead of Collin County during the spring of 2022. As you can imagine, Cathy tipped off her daughter to her happiness with “her second career” as a senior-care professional. As a result, Edrina came aboard owner Todd Felker’s award-winning Home Instead franchise in Plano, Texas, in August 2023.
In November 2023, Cathy Hammond was honored as the Home Instead franchise’s Care Pro of the Month. Not to be outdone, Edrina earned the Home Instead office’s Care Pro of the Month award for August 2024. The serendipitous stroke of well-earned fortune for mom and daughter brought smiles to the Hammond family.
Edrina confirmed: “Yes, I was referred to Home Instead through my mother, who has been with company for a few years. I started working for Home Instead because I truly believe this is a company with a great purpose that makes a positive impact on seniors while they live out their golden years.”
Home Instead Care Pro Advocate Amanda Ross said: “Edrina is a very sweet lady and excellent Care Pro. Like her mother, Edrina lives the Home Instead’s guiding principles of ‘Build Trust, Take the Lead and Share Your Heart.’ ”
While Cathy’s previous line of work was in finance and mortgage, Edrina already had been in the medical profession before she joined Home Instead. Edrina explained that working with seniors is in her blood. ”I was a certified medical assistant who worked for an internal medicine doctor who had mostly senior patients, so I have been comfortable helping them,” Edrina said. “Even more, I was a family caregiver for my father for many years.”
In addition to her strong companionship skills, Edrina provides safety assurance, meal preparation, medication reminders, light housekeeping, and transportation and errands. Edrina offers personal assistance with eating, grooming, dressing, bathing, incontinence care, cognitive impairment, hospice support and mobility. By expertly doing so, Edrina not only assists her clients, but helps their families eliminate worry, reduce stress and re-establish personal freedom.
To build on their knowledge and experience, Edrina and other Collin County Care Pros are offered the opportunity to increase their dementia-care skills by taking part in the Home Instead network’s one-of-a-kind training protocol. Home Instead’s Person-Centered Care Training for Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias is recognized by the Alzheimer’s Association® for incorporating the evidence-based dementia-care practice recommendations in these topic areas: Alzheimer’s and dementia, person-centered care, assessment and care planning, activities of daily living, and behaviors and communication.
Edrina loves being a part of the Care Pro team for the Plano-area franchise, a member of a network comprised of Home Instead, Inc. and its parent company, Honor. With the world’s largest home-care network and the most advanced care platform, Honor and Home Instead are revolutionizing care for older adults, their families and Care Pros. Combined, the network has more than 100,000 Care Pros across 13 countries, meeting the growing needs of millions of older adults and their families worldwide.
“What I like most about my job is providing companionship and feeling I made a difference,” Edrina said. “My favorite story about a client is when I had a client who really liked puzzles I enjoyed working on puzzles together with my client and listening to her stories about her life. I was also appreciative of how much she complimented my cooking.”
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