4426 127th Pl NE, Marysville, WA
Meet the Team

The people who'll know your loved one

A small, consistent team — so the same hands and voices are there every week. Familiarity matters when memory and trust are fragile.

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Abonesh Bezu

Founder & Lead Caregiver

Abonesh founded Better Life after years of caregiving experience. She speaks English and Amharic, oversees every resident's care plan, and personally cooks for the home most days. Her philosophy: small, slow, and deeply attentive.

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Day-Shift Caregiver

Specialized in dementia care and medication management. Bilingual (English & Amharic). With Better Life since opening. Loves teaching residents card games and Sunday Ethiopian breakfasts.

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Overnight Caregiver

Awake-overnight shift. Trained in mental health support and crisis de-escalation. Patient and quiet by nature — ideal for residents with sleep disturbance or nighttime anxiety.

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Activities & Engagement

Coordinates daily activities — gentle exercise, music, family video calls, and birthday/holiday celebrations. Background in occupational therapy support.

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How We Hire

Why our team stays

The biggest predictor of quality in any small care home is whether caregivers stay. Where there's high turnover, there's high stress for residents — strangers in their bedroom, new faces every week, no one who remembers what they said yesterday.

We hire slowly and pay fairly. We look for people who treat caregiving as a vocation, not a job between jobs. We train extensively — dementia care, mental health support, medication, mobility, cultural competence, end-of-life — and we keep learning together.

Most of all, we treat our team the way we want them to treat residents: with respect, listening, and genuine care.

Joining Us

Are you a caregiver looking for a different kind of home to work in?

If you have caregiving experience, a calm presence, and a heart for this kind of work, we'd love to hear from you. We hire when we have room to do it well — never out of desperation.