Family time is enhanced with quality home care assistance. Quality time is not possible as often and consistently when seniors are secured in assisted living and nursing home institutions. The latter must cater to tens and sometimes hundreds of seniors. This is a business decision because these institutions must cater to a large number of seniors in order to make a profit or even to break even. Large numbers of seniors make it more difficult to customize services for your loved one. There are set times for recreation, meals and medical visits. Family members often cannot visit during these times. Instead, there are windows when the family can visit their parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents who are secured in these homes. These make family get together a challenge. Family reunions, graduations, weddings, and other family outings are often harder to include that senior. This lack of access can lead to feelings of separation, estrangement, and frustration. This reality becomes even more problematic when work schedules and personal lives make it harder to coordinate joint visits to a senior. Precious family reunions among siblings, parents, and grandparents become harder. When these family members are out of town or out of the country, reunions on a large scale rarely happens. Such hurdles are much easier to overcome when a senior has home care assistance from an outstanding franchise. All factors are available to make small and large family reunions possible. In fact, daily reunions happen all the time as immediate family and friends drop by the home. The home care franchise work with their staff to accommodate these reunions. The only restrictions are what the caregiver chooses to put on such reunions. In fact, it is often better for the health of the senior to be at home. There is a strong correlation between happy family time, human companionship and overall health. At a nursing institution, the senior has limited family and friend interaction. This may translate into feelings of loneliness and even depression. In contrast, home care assistance from a trusted franchise increases contact with family and friends. There is also comfort in living in familiar surroundings. The senior lives at home which is often where they experienced many happy memories. His/her children shared it for most of their lives. Such continuity in familiar surroundings is healthy for all.

Home care assistance provides peace of mind for everybody. The family can be assured that the quality of care administered by the home care franchise is the highest quality. The care is administered by a reputable franchise. Equally important is the fact that the family has control over how their home care assistance is administered. Franchises can carefully screen the caregiver that administers care to the senior. There are abundant tools to choose the right home assistance franchise. You can conduct Internet research, check with the Better Business Bureau, collect reports from public agencies such as the Department of Health and solicit testimonials from clients of home care franchises. You can make a decision with a high degree of certainty that professionals from the home care franchise are highly skilled and come highly recommended. You can also monitor the home care professional for compliance with standards and agreed-upon protocols for assistance. Such oversight is not possible at nursing institutions.  Family members are usually only around to see the actual services administered on a daily basis to seniors. Oftentimes, this leads to feelings of guilt. These feelings are amplified when a senior has mental health issues. Afflictions such as dementia and Alzheimer prevent seniors from assessing situations accurately. Sometimes, they complain of poor service during periods of disorientation. It is possible that their complaints have validity and other times it may be figment of their imagination. You have no way of determining the accuracy of these complaints. This can lead to intense feelings of guilt for the family and feelings of abandonment by the senior. Home care assistance reduces the likelihood of this tragic situation. You can drop in at any time and observe the quality of care to the senior. It is also easier to make changes to home care assistance. This can be as simple as a conversation with the franchise administrators with a phone call or email. Such adjustments are more problematic with nursing institutions. The bureaucracy is more difficult because they are catering to large numbers of seniors with set schedules and family cannot just drop by to observe whether requested changes are made or if there is an improvement in the quality of care.

Families and seniors are able to manage the costs of home care assistance compared to costs at nursing institutions. The latter charge much larger fees. The overhead at nursing institutions inflates the cost of service. The average national cost is in excess of $7,000 per year for a semi-private room at nursing institutions. There are overheads such as insurance, salaries of administrators and medical professionals, commercial mortgages and utilities. At home, the family already pays these costs whether or not the senior stay at home. The family merely pays the franchise for the cost of the medical professional who visits the home. These costs vary with the medical care needs of the senior. Home care assistance may be less if you hire a CNA who provides companionship and assist with light household chores. The cost may be higher when a registered nurse is needed, or a mental health expert is deployed by the home care franchise. With home care assistance, you or the senior pay only for the services that you need. Sometimes, the family can further reduce costs by providing some of the care themselves. Other family members may chip in and help on evenings and weekends. The final savings may be quite substantial. This is not an option at nursing institutions because family members are treated as visitors with set visiting hours. This is similar to set visiting hours at hospitals. Often, there is only a window of one or two hours per day. Nursing institutions cannot allow family members open access to their facilities due to insurance and security concerns. Home care assistance grants open access. In this scenario, home care providers are the guests.