Private in-home agencies are not required to carry out background checks.
Sometimes, it takes help to keep an aging or ill parent at home.
Because more than half of baby boomers who are caring for older relatives are also working at least part time, they may need someone to bathe, cook or give medicine to an elderly person.
But hiring an in-home caregiver who can be trusted with a frail parent can be as daunting — and as nerve-wracking — as picking a nanny for an infant.
