3 Home Care Options Mom Might Consider in the Near Future
Home Care Springfield PA
At some point in time, your elderly mother may require home care services. The most common type of home care support is an aide, but your mother might consider other options as well. It’s going to depend on her health, physical strength, mobility, and other factors.
A hospitalization, for example, could lead to a lengthy recovery time at home. As a result, your mother may need numerous different types of home care providers.
Below are three basic home care options your elderly mother might need to consider in the future. The sooner you sit down and talk about them, the easier it will be for her to make decisions that are best for her, her safety, and her quality of life when and if that time comes that she needs it.
1. A home care aide.
As mentioned, this is the most common type of home care support. An aide can assist with many basic tasks of everyday life. They can assist your mother getting out of bed and getting into and out of the shower, if needed. They can help your mother prepare meals, possibly take her to doctor’s appointments or to the supermarket, and provide companionship.
A home care aide can be instrumental at helping your mother maintain a high quality of life on a daily basis.
2. A visiting nurse.
If your mother requires any type of medical care at home, she will need a visiting nurse. A home care aide is not going to be licensed or certified to administer medications, but they will be able to remind your mother when it’s time to take them. A visiting nurse can certainly administer medications, as long as he or she has the right certifications and licenses, but may also be able to redress wounds, take vital statistics, monitor health, and report important information back to the doctor.
3. A physical therapist.
If your mother is injured and is recovering, she may need services of a physical therapist. This is an individual who would be able to help her regain strength, mobility, and that can be a great way for her to maintain as much independence in her life as possible.
The more you know about home care support services and the various options available, the easier it becomes to make the right decision, either for yourself or to help a loved one see what’s best for them now and into the future.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Home Care Services in Springfield PA, please contact the caring staff at True Direct Home Health Care today.
Doc, as he is called by everyone - staff, patients and clients - first experienced home health care and hospice care while as a colleg student at King's College as he cared for his mother every day while she first battled COPD and then lung cancer. It was during this time that he came to understand that caring for a patient was more than just clinical expertise.
"Admittedly, my strongest attribute is my communication skills and the simple fact that I love to help people. Even the smallest thing you can do for someone really can mean so much to them long term. In fact, it could change them forever. That's what providing quality personal home health care should be all about."
In his spare time, he cooks for homeless shelters and children's music and arts events. He also is highly involved in his local youth sports soccer academy as a coach and Board member.
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