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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.
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. |
