Home Care

Home Care Service Providers are licensed facilities to provide nursing care with qualified nurses available 24X7 and can accommodate patients who need a higher level of care than what a residential home can offer. Some nursing homes have specialized care for patients with certain diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and heart ailments. Others can provide care for dementia patients. The costs of care offered in nursing homes are typically more expensive than those in residential homes.

Importance

Whether it's temporary or long-term, nursing care facility offers patients nursing care 24X7. Nurses can assist with daily living tasks like bathing, dressing, grooming, and using the restroom. Additionally, they can offer wound care, medication management, and other professional services.

Patients can receive high-quality medical treatment while remaining in their own homes, which is one advantage of nursing care. Families don't have to be concerned about their loved ones being left alone or not receiving the care they require because nurses are present twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Challenges

Home Care can be difficult for some families to access due to the cost due to installation of special equipments at home
Elderly people who enjoy participating in social activities may feel isolated due to reduced chances of socialisation.

Tips for the care provider

Have a medical support system.
Encourage extended family if possible
Educate the family about Govt. Schemes if applicable to reduce the financial burden
Make daily amenities safe and secure for them.
Ensure that safe transportation is available for the elderly.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Home care work?

Home health care services are designed for older adults, sick people, to receive the care, and attention that they need. It includes daily assistance, care, and medication that may be required due to your loved one's various health conditions.

What are the benefits of home care services?

Home care allows you to recover in the privacy of your own home. You can hire home care for the elderly and mothers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When you need extra hands to help care for your loved ones, home care can be very cost-effective.

How can counselling work for home care clients?

Counseling for the elderly, also known as geriatric counselling, is often overlooked. But this is the stage of life when they require a lot of help. After a life full of friends, relatives, and well-wishers with whom they would have been hanging out until a few years ago, this stage of life comes to a halt and brings with it some unwanted gifts such as health issues and loneliness. so, TalktoAngel provides an online service in which geriatric counsellors and online psychiatrists provide counselling services. They are certified and trained professionals who have experience in using various methods of online counselling for specific problems of clients.