The differences between a nursing home and receiving personalized care from home is wide. However, to many, they often do not recognize these differences when debating which service to get for their loved one. Here are 7 things you must know about personal care services and their benefits.
Focused Care
Personal care services are able to provide a more in depth focus on what a healthcare provider will have to do for their patient and the needs that need to be tended to. Generally, while in a nursing home, a patient will not be able to receive full care from a nurse as they must tend to multiple other patients who are housed in the home. But, when obtaining services at home, the care a person will receive is much more personalized so that the nurse will be able to focus fully on their health.
Diverse Services
The personal care services patient’s can acquire from home care companies are not solely for one thing, but are for a multitude of things. Families are able to get an aide specialized in Alzheimer’s and Dementia if their loved one has a disease that falls into one of these groups or if the patient has a different type of mental illness or disease, they may choose a nurse that works with psychiatric care. As well, the caregiver can tend to cooking, running errands, and light housekeeping.
Healthcare Providers
The in depth background and insurance checks that healthcare providers must undergo in order to work for a home care company insure that a family will receive only the best of the best. The nurse that a family will receive not only must be interviewed by the company, but by the family as well. The family holds their own consultation at their house to see how the healthcare provider interacts with the patient and how they will be able to tend to their needs. If the provider is not deemed to be a good fit, they are able to request another nurse/aide to consult with. Receiving services through a home care company makes the process of choosing a nurse much easier than if a family were doing it on their own.
Caregiver Relief
Choosing to receive care from home so that it is personalized allows for a bond to be created between the caregiver, the family, and the patient. Instead of panicking at if a patient will be safe and taken good care of, working with a nurse who has cared for the patient before allows for relief to be felt by the family. The reason the family will be able to feel relief is because the nurse will already know what the patient’s needs are and what services both the patient and family need, in terms of personal and household care.
Remain At Home
Staying in a familiar setting is one of the most important factors when choosing to receive at home, personalized services. Patients that remain at home are often relaxed and comfortable as they environment they are in is one that they know. In this environment, they already know what their basic everyday routine is and what they are able to do. If moved, all of this is disrupted and they must become accustomed to their new situation, which is why obtaining personal care from home is so important to may families.
Nursing Hours And Their Rates
For various companies who offer these services, they are open twenty four hours a day for seven days a week, even on holidays and weekends. Even for aides or nurses, they have the ability to come to a patient’s home within twenty four hours. The wait time for assistance becomes shorter as a the healthcare provider begins to work with the patient. How much a family must pay depends on the patient and their situation, which is decided in a home assessment. However, insurance is accepted.
Improved Health
