Live-In Care Services Make Aging at Home Simpler for Seniors

If you ask elders whether they prefer receiving care at home or in an assisted living facility, the answer in almost all cases would be home. It is difficult to leave the place where you have spent significant amount of your time and made all those special memories. Hence, in-home care services become an important part of seniors' lives and allow them to stay at home. Live-In care services can be seen as an extension of in-home care where round-the-clock assistance from a team of caregivers is available. In general, these services are targeted towards those elders who are in need of assistance for most part of the day and occasionally in the night as well.

As the caregiver is going to stay with the elder for an appreciable amount of time, it is imperative to match the needs and behavior of the elder with that of the caregiver; this helps the elder to ease into this new arrangement and perhaps embrace the change gleefully. It is possible to hire these caregivers in different ways such as through a registry, an employment-based agency, or independently (via recommendations, local newspaper, etc.). With registries and independent caregivers you have to do background checks on your own and due to the creation of an employer-employee relationship, have to pay the employment related taxes as well.

Employment-based agencies do solve the aforementioned problems as they are responsible to do background checks, provide Workers' Compensation insurance, and pay the relevant taxes on the behalf of the caregiver. This frees the seniors from complicated legal compliance and at the same time ensures their safety. You can find some excellent employment-based agencies in certain areas of Essex County and Bergen County that provide quality live-in care services for seniors.

As the caregiving process stretches to 24/7 time-frame, it becomes crucial that the caregivers are appropriately trained to handle any problems that may arise; to take care of clients who are recuperating from a major injury, suffering from Alzheimer’s, or just incapable of performing any activities of daily living (ADLs) on their own may need round-the-clock assistance and caregivers must have required training to help them. The personal care services that are provided include bathing, grooming, maintaining hygiene, mobility assistance, transferring & positioning, toilet assistance, incontinence care, etc. Companionship, helping seniors with instrumental ADLs, is also provided which includes meal preparation, transportation assistance, housekeeping, laundry, running errands, engaging recipients in mental activities, giving reminders to take medication, etc.

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