Importance of In-home Care in Assisting Transitioning Home Care Services

Transitioning home care services refer to a therapy based process that helps patients who recently have discharged from a hospital or any other medical facility to recuperate faster from illness or injury. The primary objective of these services is to make sure that the patient doesn't get readmitted to the hospital or at least try to minimize the probability of such events. To do this, different parties including physiotherapist, occupational therapist, clinicians, RNs, non-medical in-home care agencies, as well as family caregivers are needed to follow a recuperation plan so as to ensure speedy recovery of the patient.

There are two different parts to transitioning home care services: medical care and non-medical care. Let's first briefly discuss the medical part of these services. The medical part of these services is the responsibility of the clinical staff (mentioned above) that maintains an effective on-going communication with the patient's physician with respect to improvements made (or problems encountered) and subsequent changes in medication needed, educating trained (certified) and family caregivers about the non-medical requirements of the recovery plan, providing therapeutic care simultaneously with the medical care to strengthen physical, cognitive, and psycho-social abilities of the patient.

As aforementioned, most of the medical services are not needed on daily basis and are provided only when the clinical team finds them to be necessary or beneficial for recuperation. Hence, the most of the burden related to activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs is taken by the non-medical in-home care. These services include both, personal care services as well as companionship. Apart from assisting the recipient with the basic ADLs & instrumental ADLs, these trained caregivers also work closely with the clinical staff to understand how non-medical services could help in expediting the recovery process of the patient.

Personal care covers a broad range of services but common elements in this type of care are bathing, grooming, maintaining hygiene, mobility assistance, transferring & positioning, toilet assistance, and incontinence care. Since these services are crucial with respect to the recipient's well-being, only trained & certified home health aides can provide these services in the State of New Jersey. Companionship, on the other hand, includes services such as meal preparation, transportation assistance (for important medical appointments, etc.), housekeeping, laundry, running errands, giving reminders to take medication, assisting with reading, etc.

Every client has unique care needs and situations, so each Comfort Keepers office offers a full range of in-home companionship and personal care services to provide seniors with the right amount of support for independent living at home. For more details Visit here