How Do You Know the Right Time to Get Home Health Care?
If you are reading this, then there is a good chance that either you or someone you love is in need of some assistance. Here are some of the signs that you or your family member needs to get help in the home.
- Forgetfulness – names, numbers, taking medications and other short-term memory loss becoming more frequent;
- Frequent Falling – is there a growing concern that the person is either falling more frequently or their gate has become more unsteady;
- Depression – have you noticed that your family member is not acting liked they used to. They are not as cheerful or as productive as they used to be. Maybe sleeping more and doing less. Not interacting with friends or family.
- Not Performing Personal care – are they skipping showers and grooming. Not getting dressed daily; not grooming themselves, not changing their clothes.
- Difficulty Getting out of Bed or Standing from a Sitting Position
- Difficulty Preparing Meals
If you are seeing any or some of these conditions occurring, then you are in need of starting the process of receiving home care.
Having a personalized care-giver is not something to be embarrassed by or to be upset about. When done well, it is the means to remaining in your home independently and safely!
What do PERSONAL CARE services include?
- Bathing
- Grooming
- Dressing
- Mouth Care and Skin Care
- Assisting with Transferring in and out of Bed & Ambulating
- Toileting
- Reminding to take Medications
- Assisting with Exercises
What do COMPANION and HOMEMAKER services include?
- Accompanying to an medical appointment
- Accompanying to social gatherings and family functions
- Safety supervision/fall prevention
- Talking and Communicating with the client
- Reading to the Client
- Engaging the client with games and hobbies and interests of the client
- Meal preparation
- Light housekeeping which includes: dusting, vacuuming, dishwashing, laundry, bed-making, mail sorting and more.
Live-In Care
Accredited is proud of our extensive staff of live-in caregivers and our live-in care program!
Live-in Care is 24-hour care that combines all client personal care tasks, companion and homemaker services and adds night-time supervision. Often, this is a key service which enables our clients to remain safely at home without the risk of being left alone.
Live-in care can be for a short-term period to relieve the family who are away or while the client is recuperating from an illness or surgery, or it can be for a long-term basis. When done as a long-term solution, you will probably have one primary live-in caregiver who will stay with you for the majority of the time, and fill-in staff when that primary aide needs some time off.
Accredited is and has always been a leading provider of live-in care in Nanuet and the Rockland County area. We can also provide live-in care in Orange County and Westchester County. Our staff of live-in caregivers are skilled aides with the ability to know how to be a presence in your house while knowing how not to be obtrusive to the client’s need for personal space and alone time.
Why Accredited Aides Plus?
Accredited’s staff of certified aides are what separate Accredited from our competitors. When we hire our aides we conduct a thorough screening process. Interviews, professional and personal references, criminal background checks, skills testing, physical wellness, drug screening, training verification, identification verification.