Should you hire someone you know to care for your elderly family? Real-life perspectives from hundreds of Vietnamese families.

When families begin caring for elderly parents, especially when relatives are frail or require medical assistance, the first option that many people consider is:

• 👉 Hire an acquaintance
• Thanks to relatives.
• 👉 Or find someone from the countryside to come up here.

The reason is easy to understand:

• Trust
• Easy to communicate with
• It gives you a feeling of being "safer than strangers."

But the reality shows that:

• 👉 Most families encounter problems after a while.
• 👉 And in many cases… people find themselves in a situation where they “cannot continue, but cannot stop either.”

1. Why has hiring an acquaintance become a popular choice?

In Vietnamese culture, caring for the elderly is always associated with emotional connection.

• 👉 When you need someone to take care of you:
• The family prioritizes acquaintances.
• The desire is for "family members to take care of family members".

Initial benefits:

• Easy to trust
• No need for extensive checks.
• Comfortable communication

• But the problem is:
• These benefits only exist in the initial stage.

2. When problems begin to arise – the hardest part isn't the maintenance.

After one to two weeks of caring for a sick elderly person, many families begin to realize:

• The caregiver lacks skills.
• Working habitually
• Not understanding the proper way to care for them.

• ❗ Very common situations:
• Assisting elderly people with incorrect posture.
• Uncontrolled diet
• Failing to recognize abnormal signs.

• But the hardest part is:
• Cannot say it directly

3. The "reluctance to give feedback" mentality – the biggest weakness of this model.

When hiring strangers:

• 👉 Not okay → change

But when hiring someone you know:

• 👉 This is not good → very awkward

Typical families:

• Reluctant to give feedback
• Afraid of offending others.
• Afraid of affecting the relationship.

• 👉 Result:
• I know it's not good enough yet.
• But we still have to continue.

• 👉 This is extremely dangerous when caring for sick parents.

4. Lack of training – mistakes happen every day.

Caring for the elderly is not just about:

• Feed
• Chat

And also:

• Provide the right support.
• Health monitoring
• Handling the situation

• 👉 When there is no training:
• Each person takes care of things in their own way.
• There are no standards.
• No consistency

• 👉 With long-term care for the elderly, this creates:
• Small deviations accumulate into major problems.

5. There is no system – everything depends on “consciousness”

The acquaintance model:

• 👉 None:
• Procedure
• Monitor
• Evaluate

• This leads to:
• No one checked.
• No one reminded them.
• No one takes responsibility.

• 👉 The family must:
• Just take care
• Management
• Both worried

6. When it comes to making substitutions – there's almost no way out.

This is a very common situation:

• 👉 The family is no longer satisfied.

But:

• Cannot say it directly
• It's not easy to find new people.
• I don't want to lose the relationship.

• 👉 Result:
• Accept to continue
• Or interruption of care.

• 👉 Both directly affect the process. caring for the elderly and sick.

7. SAN – an alternative to the “emotional” model

After experiencing the acquaintance model, many families realize:

• 👉 You can't rely on emotions.
• 👉 A system is necessary.

And that's where SAN, an app for caring for the elderly and the sick, becomes a more suitable option.

8. How does SAN address these issues?

• 🌟 1. Controlled recruitment
  • Background check
  • Identity verification
  • Assess attitude
• 🌟 2. Professional training

  Trained caregivers:

  • skills in caring for the elderly
  • skills in caring for the elderly and sick
  • care process
• 🌟 3. Relationship independent
  • Feel free to give feedback.
  • Not bound
• 🌟 4. There is supervision and reminders.
  • Track work
  • Schedule reminder
  • Ensure consistency
• 🌟 5. Players can be substituted flexibly.
  • 👉 Not "stuck" like acquaintances
  • quick change
  • uninterrupted

9. Comparison of facts

• 👉 Acquaintance:
  • Initial trust
  • But it's difficult to control.
• 👉 SAN:
  • There is a system
  • There are standards.
  • Responsible

10. Conclusion

Hiring someone you know could:

• Suitable for the short term.

But with the following:

• caring for the elderly
• elderly care
• caring for parents with long-term illnesses.

• 👉 Here's the model:
• Difficult to control and unsustainable.

• What the family needs is not:
• acquaintance
• or cheap people

• Instead, it's:
• a professional, stable, and responsible care system

SAN is that solution.

📲 Call to action

If you're struggling to care for elderly parents or feel that the model of hiring someone you know is no longer suitable:

• 👉 It's time to switch to a better solution.

📞 Hotline: 1900.0666.88

📲 Download the app SAN Find a trained, supervised, and quality-assured caregiver today.

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