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Services Special Services
Quality In-Home Care Specialists can assist you and yours with just about everything you might need to maintain the activities of daily living in your home. We know it can be challenging if you are experiencing declining health or are faced with a serious illness or long-term disability. It’s equality difficult if you are the loved one of a declining elder. The forgoing is a sample of what services we offer.
Homemaker/Companion
Assistance
with meal preparation and clean up, laundry (which
includes washing, drying and folding.) Linen change
includes stripping and remaking the bed. Light
housekeeping means maintaining the home in a clean and
orderly state. Grocery plus misc. shopping. Transportation to Dr. visits or just going for a ride to feed the ducks or do a little sight seeing, play cards or go to the movies. The attendant is there to assist in making life a little easier and a little more pleasurable. (No personal care)
Personal Care
Assistance with personal hygiene, showering or bathing, hair washing and curling if appropriate. Dressing. Getting ready to enjoy the day.
The level of assistance is determined at the time the in- home assessment is done. This level of assistance includes personal assistance as well as the same assistance the homemaker provides.
Bath Visit
This is a special visit designed to provide assistance with a bath or a shower, hair grooming, finger and toenails cleaned and filed, painted if you like, along with a good old fashioned foot rub. Cream the skin and massage the legs.
This service can be used for anything within the first
1.5 hour visit.
Sleep Over
This service has been created to keep clients safe during the nighttime hours to prevent un-necessary falls due to being disoriented and groggy when getting up to use the restroom. This is a 12- hour shift allowing the
Care Provider 6-8 hours of sleep in a private bed. They will get up with the client whenever the client needs to. Example: The shift runs from 6:00 P.M.
to 6:00 A.M. or any combination of time that works best for the client. There would be 2 hours to get ready for bed and if timed right 2 hours to get the client up in the morning and ready for the day.
Transportation
This service is for shopping trips,
doctor visits or any trip the individual might need to
make. It does not include any other services.
If the attendant uses the clients car the charge is
hourly only. If the client uses the attendants car
there is a charge for mileage plus hourly rate.
Short Shifts
These shifts are for 2 to 3.9 hours and can be
used for either skilled care or Homemaker/Companion.
Short Shifts are a higher rate.
Certified Nursing Assistant
By request only - Skilled care which includes
Personal Care.
12 Hour Awake Shift (Nights)
On this shift the
Care Provider is awake for the full 12 hours.
A recliner or such is provided for the Care Provider to rest during the wee hours of the morning. Some domestic chores can be done before the client retires if desired. This shift is usually provided to the very ill or Hospice cases.
24 Hour Live-In Shift
When it has become unsafe for you to live alone we can provide one or two attendants to assist you with all the activities of daily living for 7 days a week if this is what you require to remain in your home. If assistance were requested for 7 days a week your
Care Providers would work 4 days on and 3 days off. This
way you know who is going to be with you and there are
not new Care Providers all the time. Many of our clients have found they enjoy having the company of their
Care Providers. They can go on outing, attend the groups they used to before they lost their ability to drive safely. The possibilities are limitless. We are in your home to improve the quality of life and assist you to live your life the way you would like to.
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