Caregiver is very nice and takes care of my parents who are in their 90s. Parents live in my house. When she asked for my WiFi password I was taken aback. Isn't she supposed to be helping my parents? I know there is a lot of downtime when parents are sleeping but I feel uncomfortable giving out my password. Not sure how to handle this. I need to educate myself on how I can better respond to her request.
My daughter cannot afford WiFi in her house (she’s a minimalist who keeps her life simple). My husband added her to OUR WiFi, and she can go online at our house. She’s come over after we’ve gone to bed and sits on our patio or in her vehicle and goes online. We put her on our Netflix account as a family member. She’s the ONLY person we’d give our number to.
There are bound books to read (I buy actual books for my daughter), painting with oil, embroidery and hand sewing, decorating with flower boxes, all sorts of things to do while the elderly nap. My daughter is hyperactive so she stays busy.
Tell caregiver that you feel that your number is private and if she gets angry she isn’t the caregiver for your family.
Deny her the connection and it means she can't pick up or respond to messages, and if she has other clients these may be urgent. I don't think it's a reasonable condition to impose on a professional caregiver - assuming, again, that she is not misusing her time.
And if you want to go techie then there are ways to set up guest access to your WiFi, even to your computer if you needed to give them access to that (though personally I would draw the line there).
I see two problems with this and the password is not one of them.
1.There should be other tasks to do that are associated with the patients ie laundry, cooking and keeping their area clean and tidy.
2. Internet access is not necessary for a caregiver to recieve messages. She can be called on her own phone or your house phone.
In principle it is no different than reading a book or some hobby as long as she can immediately respond to her patients. Better than sleeping on the job.
I also agree that you may want to let him/her know that the wifi is not for porn or criminal activity or selling/buying stuff on Ebay.
This is not something you should fret over. Surely you have other things to worry about. 😁
A dilemma...and I haven’t read every response so excuse me if mine has been posted a few times. I’d be concerned because as Tech mentioned, wherever your carer goes or dors online could be your responsibility. I have no idea if there is some sort of “at your own risk” type document your carer could sign but, perhaps you might have a very frank conversation about your concerns. That would be my only worry. As others have said, there really isn’t anything (other than the liability issue) wrong with your carer going online providing she drop everything when needed.
Actually data use from a mobile internet provider is pretty much unlimited these days unless she has an el cheap type of account. So needing WiFi is a moot point unless you are live streaming data or watching videos or movies.
If your LO is sleeping, then yes, why not let her use internet? I see it’s no different than reading a paperback. But use a guest password
For all of you who would do this: Why do you even have a password-protected network?
For all those reasons, don't give your password to anyone you don't trust with anything on your network.
Do you use public Wi-Fi to do your banking? Why not?
If you give your Wi-Fi password to anyone, what's to prevent her from giving it to her boyfriend, her kids, or anyone who steals her cell phone? You just made your private network public.
Not unless you've got the world's most powerful WiFi hub, anyway, or you're inviting all these people into the house.
We are talking about the wireless network connection that makes the internet available within your home. Like the house wiring. It's not about giving anyone the password to your accounts, it's about their being able to use their *own* accounts in your house.
Finding patient information leaflets for a px'd medication
Ordering groceries
Ordering continence care products
Assisting with choosing grandchildren's birthday presents
Looking up the right plant for a bare patch in the flower bed
Confirming a doctor's appointment time
Checking routes to a hospital
Getting an accurate weather forecast
Researching family trees
Looking up hair washing techniques for people with limited mobility
Isn't the internet wonderful?
You could only access the wifi if you were in their apartment or within a few feet of their apartment.. you could get a weak signal... so you would have to be in their apartment to benefit from it much.
I suppose there are drawbacks to this.. but it worked out during the time I had to have caregivers to allow them to stay in their apartment.
The WiFi password is the access code you will find on the back of your home hub. Your home hub is the box of tricks which handles your broadband connection. To go online, unless you have some other arrangement with your provider, you sign in to this Local Area Network.
This does not give you access to anybody else's smartphone or computer, it is not a password to any private accounts, it just allows you to connect your own device to get online.
Because of this better routers offer a separate guest WiFi with its own password and with a restricted environment where the user can only access the internet but not the internal network.