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Have you recently learned that a family member needs supportive care, and you are considering hiring others to help? With our growing older population, this is an increasingly common occurrence. There are two ways to proceed. You can hire an agency, or you can hire individuals directly. This article focuses on the second approach, and offers a partial list of some of the online service marketplaces that help connect people looking for caregivers within individuals that can help. New products are coming to the market every month, so this list will quickly be outdated. Let us know if you have learned about other services in this category. Some of these are very new and may be still "beta" testing. 

In a future article, we will offer some advise on how to verify someone's credentials, background, and criminal history.