What To Expect with Home Care

What Can I Expect with In-Home Care?

In-home care brings the comfort of professional support right to your doorstep, wherever home may be for seniors and their families. This approach allows cherished independence while providing essential assistance in a familiar environment.

For families living far from their loved ones, providers like Comfort Keepers^® offer regular updates on the senior’s well-being as one of their key services. This brings true reassurance, knowing your loved one receives compassionate, high-quality care tailored to their needs.

Beyond peace of mind, Comfort Keepers delivers a broad array of services. We collaborate closely with seniors and their families to craft personalized care plans that address unique requirements. These plans empower seniors to age gracefully at home, with enhanced safety and security. In-home care also nurtures dignity and independence, helping everyone involved thrive.

Here are some typical in-home services. You might not need them all immediately, but the beauty of in-home care lies in its adaptability. Options can be added or adjusted as circumstances evolve, all within the soothing comfort of home.

Moreover, in-home care offers exceptional value. Rather than engaging multiple specialists who may specialize in errands, transportation, housekeeping, or meal preparation, a single agency can manage these and more, streamlining support for better efficiency and joy.

Companionship and Care Services

• Conversation and companionship to foster social connections during meals or throughout the day, enhancing health, happiness, and overall quality of life
• Meal preparation to support balanced nutrition and promote vibrant, healthier living
• Light housekeeping, including vacuuming, dusting, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms and kitchens, taking out the trash, straightening rooms, organizing closets and drawers, and washing reachable interior windows
• Errand services, such as collecting prescriptions or visiting the post office
• Grocery shopping, with or without the senior
• Respite care to give family caregivers a well-deserved break, freeing time for personal errands, shopping, or rest
• Medication reminders (caregivers cannot administer medications but can prompt timely intake and assist with opening containers or reading labels)
• Grooming and dressing guidance, such as fastening buttons, tying shoes, and putting on socks
• Incidental transportation to medical appointments, barbershops, beauty salons, shopping, or other preferred destinations
• Laundry services, encompassing washing, drying, ironing, and putting items away
• Recreational activities, like card and board games, park walks, crafts, hobbies, and outings to church or other favourite places, to invigorate mind, body, and spirit
• Mail assistance and organization to distinguish junk from essential mail and highlight bill due dates
• Periodic reviews and family communication to share updates on your loved one, resolve concerns, and refine services as required
• In-home safety devices to monitor seniors when alone, promoting security and enabling swift emergency assistance with a simple button press

Personal Care Services

• Bathing to uphold proper hygiene and renew a sense of well-being
• Mobility assistance to encourage physical activity and exercise, cultivating a healthier lifestyle alongside improved mood, reduced stress, and sharper mental alertness
• Transferring and positioning to sustain functional mobility, ease skin pressure points, minimize muscle stiffening, and support effective breathing, digestion, and elimination
• Toileting and incontinence care, provided with sensitivity to preserve dignity and bolster ongoing independence
• Oral hygiene to ward off bad breath, tooth decay, and gum disease
• Feeding assistance, plus special diet and meal preparation, to guarantee nutritious intake for robust health

In-home care providers can also extend specialized support, including compassionate companionship for hospice patients and their families, as well as for individuals navigating Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia-related conditions—all while emphasizing non-medical, uplifting care that honours individual needs.

Discover how Comfort Keepers can help elevate the human spirit℠ in your home. Contact us today for a free consultation.