You're probably all right about this guy; good catch. But it did sound like an idea that I've had. I've been wondering if there is a business that provides assistance to older people. Not personal caregiver service, I'm thinking more of help with household chores, and particularly help with electronic stuff, which a lot of old people seem to have trouble with.
I have a dear friend in her 90's. She is mentally as sharp as a tack, but in the last couple of weeks, she has been pretty distraught about not being able to open jars, having trouble putting together a new vacuum cleaner (she had to temporarily let her cleaning lady go due to the virus), not being able to hook up her CD player to her stereo, and one day her phone and computer abruptly stopped working (turned out something was unplugged)! Even if I could personally help her with all this, I think it goes beyond the boundaries of friendship. And of course, she isn't letting anyone into her house anyway. But even in a post-Covid world, I think she'd need more help than she is able to get. She has children, who are running around getting her groceries and doing all sorts of errands for her, but they have lives of their own, and nobody wants to keep bothering their middle-aged children to constantly help them.
Yet, she is fiercely independent, and I'm sure she doesn't want assisted living. I know I wouldn't.
So this wouldn't be cleaning help, or nursing help, or secretarial help, but sort of a combination of all three. Might be a good part time job for a local college student. The person needing help would either have a regular assistant coming in, maybe weekly or twice a week, or would call on an as-needed basis. Obviously, the assistants would be carefully vetted, the same as those working for any other agency.
I was thinking of suggesting this to our social services department, once this Covid thing is over.
The one thing I'd be leery of is the possibility that a snake in the grass could sneak through the vetting process and end up emptying her whole bank account. But then, couldn't a personal caregiver also do that?