Mzia K.

My husband was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia and needed someone to be with him to keep him safe and to give me an opportunity to get out of the house. Mzia worked from 2021 until June 2025, for two full days each week. I found her to be responsible, pleasant, and easy to have around. She's good at what she does and she's a lovely person. I usually prepared the meals for my husband, but Mzia would help him eat and spotted him when he used the walker. In early 2025, he had a series of very serious urinary tract infections and was hospitalized and then sent to rehab. Mzia was with him at rehab and was concerned that he still had an infection. She told me to call an ambulance, and she was right. I really appreciated her expertise, especially on that day. My husband and I both like Mzia very much, but we eventually accepted that we needed to switch to a male caregiver who could physically lift and move him. We were sorry to lose Mzia, and recommend her for someone else with confidence.

- Susan S., New York

Mzia worked as an aide for my mother for four years, ending on October 26, 2020, when mom died. For years I have admired my friends and relatives who succeeded in finding competent and kind aides for their family members, worrying that I would not be able to find such excellent help when the time came.  I am affirming here that Mzia far exceeded my expectations in every category of her work.  My family was extremely lucky to have found Mzia who gave our mother and, indeed, the whole family outstanding assistance. Mzia is careful, attentive, gentle, responsive, and thorough. My mother had health issues over the past four years and Mzia was able to support doctors’ orders to the letter and ease my mother’s pain and other discomforts.  Mzia gave mom the most considerate, gentle, loving care possible, and she was with our family as our mother died. Mzia had perfect attendance and a high level of commitment to her job over the entire period of four years.  She managed food issues, cooking, kept the environment clean and neat, and was both respectful of and nicely warm toward all of my mother’s family members. Like a number of older persons – my mother was a few weeks shy of 99 when she died – she was querulous and sharp-tongued.  Mzia was able to help mom deal with and move beyond the causes of her difficult behavior, without taking the outbursts personally.  She has a strong sense of herself, which she expresses gently and with love.

- Rickie S., New York, LeanOnWe Customer

It is my pleasure to recommend Mzia as a professional aide. I have known her for over six years. I initially met Mzia in 2010 when my mother, who was in her 80s, required increased support. Mzia has a background as a medical professional. Most importantly, she is a genuinely compassionate, respectful, and responsible woman. Mzia takes her work very seriously. She is very punctual and skillful in all areas of patient care. When my mother passed away in 2013, Mzia began to take full care of my elderly neighbor and did so until her death in 2016. For my mother and for my neighbor, Mzia helped with showering, food shopping and preparation, light housekeeping, and special things like manicures and haircuts. She accompanied my neighbor on her doctor appointments and in general, was accommodating to anything that was asked of her. My neighbor was on hospice care for some time and was bedridden. During that time, Mzia took complete care of her, including wound care. Mzia is charming, personable, and cheerful, and her patients and their families trust her completely.

- Frieda G., New York

Mzia worked for my parents between the period of March 2005 and July 2008. She was a live-in aide and companion. Her duties included cooking and light housekeeping as well as tending to my elderly father. Mzia first came on the scene when my father was newly out of rehabilitation. He was in poor condition having previously had a stroke and then bed sores. He also lost a lot of weight. Many people didn't think he would last a month. Mzia took wonderful care of him. She helped take care of his bed sores. She was patient and kind to him when he was frustrated. Due to her skillful nursing, he was able to gain back all of the weight he had lost. She always kept him clean and neat looking. When my father passed away in March 2008, Mzia helped take care of my mom until the end of July. Mzia is very intelligent, honest, and a capable woman. My family misses her.

- Lynne H., New York