Asking for healthcare help is not like asking for a plumber. The person will enter your home and care for someone you love, so trust matters more than price — and some details should stay private until you have made your choice.
What belongs in the request
- The type of care: injections on prescription, wound dressing, post-surgery follow-up, elderly assistance, physiotherapy sessions.
- The rhythm: one visit, daily for a week, twice a week for a month.
- The area of town — the neighbourhood is enough at this stage.
- Any constraint that changes who can do the job: a female caregiver preferred, experience with bedridden patients, a language the patient is comfortable in.
What to keep out of the public post
Do not publish the patient's name, the exact address, the full medical history or photos of documents. Share those privately, in the chat, once you have chosen a caregiver — not before. A public post needs enough to attract the right professional, not a medical file.
Check credentials, politely and firmly
Any serious nurse or physiotherapist expects to be asked. Ask for their diploma or professional card and where they usually practise. Check their reviews from other families on the app. Someone offended by the question is answering it.
Prescriptions are the doctor's job
A home nurse executes a prescription; they do not write one. Be cautious with anyone offering to supply medicines, adjust doses on their own, or treat without a doctor's instruction. For anything urgent or unclear, the answer is a doctor or the emergency services, not an app.
Where Brikoula fits
Post the request once, and caregivers in your area respond with their availability and price. You compare profiles, reviews and answers before anyone gets your address. The caregiver spends coins to unlock your contact details — posting costs you nothing, and you stay in control of what you share and when.