1. Keeping Independence
Home Care supports the individual’s choices and preferences in order to maintain their dignity and independence. With more seniors in the population than ever before, the industry of medical assistance and home care ensures seniors can enjoy living independently. In-home care professionals have created a new way for senior citizens to continue to live independently while maintaining the help that they need in order to live life with dignity. Patients tend to have a greater sense of well-being and overall morale when they are in the comfortable surroundings of their own home.
2. Reducing Stress
After a long hospital stay, coordinating the logistics of bathing, meal preparation and cleanup, grocery shopping, etc. can be overwhelming, especially if the patient has adult children whose career requires full-time work. Rather than leaving their job to take care of mom or dad, many families turn to a caregiver. Depending on the hours needed, home care can be much more affordable than nursing homes or other institutions. You or a loved one determines the schedule, which can range from a weekly visit to 24-hour care, and Assisting Hands will tailor its services to meet your individual needs.
3. Peace of Mind
When you bring a caregiver into your loved one’s life, you’re doing more than ensuring premium care for your loved one. You’re also ensuring peace of mind for you. In most cases, it’s simply not possible to provide the range and level of care your loved one needs and deserves. Home care professionals will provide any kind of assistance that may be necessary. They have successfully passed extensive background checks, as well as being insured, bonded, and trained in CPR and First Aid.
Unlike the restricted visiting hours at hospitals and nursing homes, home provides a place where family and friends can be close to the person at all hours, whenever needed. Both the patient and family members can be more intimately involved with the patient’s treatment at home—helping to administer medications, working with the patient on physical therapy and coaching them on their recovery. Home care gives the greatest amount of individual attention. Assisting Hands caregivers will focus their undivided attention on your loved one. This helps to ensure the highest quality of home healthcare service available for your loved one.
4. Comfort
Being at home is simply more comfortable for most people than being in an unfamiliar place. They have their photographs, books, bed, bath, kitchen, telephone, television; everything is in its place, which in studies has proven to be an effective emotional healer. Patients enjoy a much better quality of life which many families have said helped to extend the lives, health & happiness of their loved ones. They are in a familiar environment around their family in both their home and community in which they’ve lived for many years. This is particularly true with individuals suffering from dementia.
5. Preventing Hospital Return
Home Care can help prevent the triggers that cause a patient to return to the hospital within 30 days of release:
- Lack of social support
- Mismanagement of medication
- Not understanding the disease process
- Missing follow up appointments
Call Assisting Hands today to set up an in-home consultation at no cost! 816-207-3200
