Kaleb Schwartz

At this year's Home Care Assistance convention, Kaleb Schwartz won the Home Care Assistance' 2009 Caregiver of the Year award. He first started his career as a Home Care Assistance caregiver in 2007, when he was only 20 years old. Though Susan Bruketta and Skip Pascoe, co-owners of the Home Care Assistance Albuquerque location, were doubtful that a young male could be received as a caregiver in an average client’s home, they were soon proven very wrong. In the past 2 and a half years, Kaleb’s genuine passion for providing superior care has shone through. Susan and Skip consider Kaleb to be their “go to” troubleshooter for difficult or challenging cases.

Kaleb is one of the first employees assigned to difficult hospice cases that deal with touchy family dynamics and last minute emergencies. He is skilled in comforting hospice patients and families with their physical, emotional and social needs. He has proven to be invaluable in championing involvement with the medical hospice nurses and aids so the family experiences a team approach to their care.

According to Susan Bruketta, “Kaleb possesses the ideal character traits you look for in a caregiver:  common sense, extensive knowledge, adaptable to any environment, self-directed and a sense of urgency.”