HOME HEALTH CARE is home care services provided by home health agencies nationwide. There are two types of home health care services:

1. One refers to non-medical services that assist individuals with activities of daily living and is provided by home health aides. They provide a multitude of services such as housekeeping, shopping, meal preparation, driving the senior to appointments, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and even transferring the disabled senior from the bed to a chair. You can receive these services 24 hours a day, seven days a week or part-time, hourly, live-in, or just on an as-needed basis.

2. The second one refers to  medical care, such as that provided by nurses or physical, occupational, speach and respiratory therapists. These care providers are trained medical, health care and psychiatric professionals. To receive these type of home health services, you need a  physician order and services may be covered by your health insurance.

HOSPICE CARE SERVICES represent a compassionate approach to end-of-life care. Although death is a natural part of life, the thought of dying still terrifies many people. You may imagine pain and loneliness, spending your final days in a cold, sterile environment far from family, friends and all you know and love. However, hospice care can transform your passage into a peaceful, healing transition.

Hospice is more a concept of care than a specific place, and involves palliative care (pain and symptom relief) rather than ongoing curative measures, enabling you to live your end days to the fullest, with purpose, dignity, grace and support. Hospice care services can be provided in hospice units, some hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities, but most often hospice takes place in the comfort of your own home, allowing you to remain in familiar surroundings as you prepare for a meaningful life conclusion.some retirement homes, and in your own home. Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans cover hospice care services. Medicare regulations require that your hospice care be provided at home, with only short stays in an inpatient facility.

DEMENTIA ALZHEIMERS CARE : Characterized by memory loss and a cognitive decline that interferes with daily life, dementia progressively weakens a person’s thought processing ability, ultimately causing drastic changes in mood, behavior and memory. Today, Alzheimers disease, the most common form of dementia, affects close to six million people in the U.S. and Canada. Despite its prevalence, Alzheimers and related dementias are not a normal part of aging. Alzheimers causes irreversible changes to the brain that result in problems communicating, thinking, and taking care of basic needs. Symptoms vary as the disease affects each person differently, but individuals with Alzheimers inevitably advance through increasingly debilitating stages, requiring progressively more intense levels of care. More than half of long-term care residents have dementia.

Although Alzheimers disease currently has no known deterrent or cure, specific methods of care can help manage the symptoms of dementia. As the stages of dementia progress, the person affected will require increasing amounts of care. In the early stages people with Alzheimers typically have both “good” days when you don’t notice unusual behavior, and “bad” days when they forget they have a pie in the oven, or call you in a panic because they have been driving around for an hour unable to find the local grocery store. It’s important to watch out for “bad day” situations like these as they will only become more frequent and dangerous, clearly indicating a need for more supervision.  In advanced stages, people with Alzheimers may begin to wander, or they may become hostile and violent at times, posing a danger to themselves and others. 

Many assisted living facilities provide care to patients with Alzheimers and related dementia. 

ADULT DAY CARE is a planned program of activities designed to promote well-being though social and health related services. Adult day care centers operate during daytime hours, Monday through Friday, in a safe, supportive, cheerful environment. Nutritious meals that accommodate special diets are typically included, along with an afternoon snack. Adult day care centers can be public or private, non-profit or for-profit. The purpose of an adult day care center is primarily to provide older adults an opportunity to get out of the house and receive both mental and social stimulation and to give caregivers a much-needed break in which to attend to personal needs, or simply rest and relax.