Home Care Is The Preferred Choice For Seniors
Home Care Means Receiving Services
Home care is assistance with health and personal needs provided in the comfort of the individual's home. Anyone can assist a senior but home care is best provided by trained professionals known as Caregivers. Home care could either be medical or non-medical in its services. The State of Wisconsin regulates medical home care. Because non-medical home care is not regulated in Wisconsin, it is best that a trained Caregiver provides the assistance.
Nine out of ten seniors would rather keep living at home. But when frailty chronic illness or forgetfulness makes living alone too difficult for seniors home care enables them to maintain their quality of life and lifestyle.
With home care, a personal Caregiver visits the senior for a period of at least three hours at a time–up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, depending on the level of care needed.
In-home Caregivers provide help with a wide variety of non-medical related activities of daily living. These include: showering, bathing and dressing, meal preparation, transportation, using the toilet, companionship, recreation, medication reminders, fall prevention, transferring and more.
Take this quick self-assessment test to see if home care is right for you!
What Is Full-Time Care?
For people who are looking for a comprehensive alternative to any type of facility, or prefer the comfort and safety of round-the-clock monitoring and care, we offer 24/7 full-time care. Full-time Caregivers come to their senior's home and stay around the clock. With full-time care, a Caregiver is always watching over the senior and is ready to assist in all activities of daily living. This is accomplished with either one Caregiver working 24/7 and sleeping when their client sleeps, or with 2 or 3 hourly Caregivers who remain awake the entire 24/7.
Live-in care does not mean that the Caregiver moves into the senior's home. Caregivers must maintain a separate residence and are not allowed to use the personal property, such as the telephone or car, of the senior. Caregivers stay in the home only for the duration of their assigned shift. They may not have visitors nor invite family to the home while they are working. For seniors who need continuous, 24-hour monitoring or assistance 7 days a week, Live-in Caregivers offer a viable alternative to assisted living facilities.
Home Care Isn't Just For Staying At Home
Our care goes wherever seniors need it. Caregivers aren't limited to providing help at home. Our Caregivers can even provide one-to-one service for seniors during hospital stays or after admission to an assisted living facility, ensuring that they maintain the high level of personal care and companionship they deserve. They can also drive to doctor's appointments, grocery stores or other locations.They can even accompany their client on vacation trips!
Questions you should ask before hiring an in-home care assistance agency.
- Does the Company have General Liability Insurance?
- Are their Caregivers bonded?
- How do they screen employees?
- Do they provide training to their Caregivers?
- Do they provide transportation and do they have additional insurance in case of accident?
- Do they accept Medicare and Medicaid?
- Do they disclose all of their available services?
- Will they provide an evaluation of their loved one's home care needs at no cost?
- Do they include the care recipient and family members in planning a care plan?
- Do they disclose specific activities and tasks the Caregiver will perform?
- How do they review the quality of the work performed by the Caregiver?
- Can they provide references?
- Is there Caregiver staffing model to use one Caregiver or multiple Caregivers?
Contact Home Care Assistance
Home Care Assistance Caregivers are experienced, bonded, insured and rigorously-screened.
