Dominique: ‘It Feels Good to Help Others’
Home Instead® Care Professional of the Month Dominique Hampton hardly has any downtime during her day, but she’s in “the business of staying busy” and manages her time well, sometimes to the minute.
Dominique became a CNA about 20 years ago, and she noted she joined Home Instead of Clawson in August 2017. Bert and Stephanie Copple own the award-winning Home Instead franchise that serves southeast Oakland County. “It feels as if I’ve done the CNA type of work my whole life. It feels good to help people,” said Dominique, who also works at a second job that is unrelated to professional senior care. Additionally, Dominique is an unpaid family caregiver who assists a grandmother and grandfather. A mother of two, Dominique provides special hands-on care of an autistic son.
Dominique feels at home with Home Instead for several reasons, including scheduling flexibility. “Sometimes, night shifts can be the way to go, so there is that option. I feel good about the company because every office staff member – every administrator – is respectful to us as employees. They also always put their clients first,” Dominique said.
Dominique’s memories of Home Instead clients include a client whom Dominique served for 2½ years before the client passed away just before the COVID-19 pandemic enveloped the world in the early months of 2020. “I thought of her as family. As a Care Pro, you build very close relationships and create bonds, and that’s the nature of the job,” Dominique said. She remembered a grocery-shopping trip with a client who began to worry if she brought enough money to cover her shopping. “She was fretting, and that was obvious. I reassured her that everything would be fine no matter what, and it was,” Dominique recalled.
For Dominique and her fellow Care Pros, touching lives impacts their souls, whether they are providing physical help such as light housekeeping, meal preparation, medication reminders or personal care or if they are offering emotional support in a companionship role. Home Instead staff members said Dominique embodies Home Instead’s guiding principles of “Build Trust, Take the Lead and Share Your Heart.”
The bottom line, Dominique said, is that she’s “very happy with Home Instead.”
Dominique loves being a part of the Care Pro team for the Detroit-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.
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