What to Expect from a Home Care Attendant?

A home care attendant offers different types of services safely within the comforts of a home. Perfect for the older adults who require assistance with daily living activities, disabled individuals, and those recovering from surgeries or injuries. Home health care attendants offer personal and clinical care for people of all ages.

If you want the perfect home health care attendants for your loved one, here are the options that you need to understand:

Companion Care

This kind of home care is non-medical and includes help with:

• Errands
• Housekeeping
• Companionship and social interaction

Companions for the elderly and the patients focus on the mental and emotional well-being of the clients, offering health stimulating activities regularly. Such companions are available 24/7 to offer care, attention and comfort to individuals who live alone, especially the elderly.

Personal or Assistive Care

 Personal or assistive care services include assistance with daily living activities like:

• Dressing
• Bathing
• Medication reminders
• Transportation
• Visit doctors

Such services are also non-medical and can come from a home care attendant or home health aide. The attendants also act as companions and homemakers’ duties.

Adult Nursing

There are registered nurses and licensed practical home care attendants providing such services.

Adult nursing solutions support seniors and adults living with different illnesses, injuries and disabilities. Such services are also available 24/7 on an ongoing basis.

Home Health Services

Home health solutions support the seniors and the adults with rehabilitative care, assistive care and short-term nursing requirements. Such services are offered by:

• Physiotherapists
• Registered nurses
• Home health aides

Patient Care

Highly trained, professional and experienced home care attendants and nurses provide different patient care services for patients who need more than just medical help. Such services include:

• Feeding: Offering the right kind of nutrition and helping with timely meals.
• Emotional support: Patients require someone they can talk to or share their feelings with all the time. A humble and experienced home care attendant will offer emotional support assuring the mental well-being of the patients.
• Medical assistance: Offering prescribed medicines on time.
• Checking important health vitals: The home care attendants maintain a record and keep the patient’s weight, blood sugar level, pulse rate, blood pressure and other vitals in check.
• Mobility assistance: Home care attendants will help patients with basic activities like changing positions in bed, walking and getting in or out of bed or chair.
• Dressing and bathing: Help with regular bathing and changing clothes.
• Personal hygiene: Help with combing, brushing, self-cleaning, shaving, changing diapers if required, toileting and many other activities.
• Other services: Giving injections, catheterisation, washing clothes, keeping the surroundings clean, changing bed sheets and helping with grocery shopping.

A home care attendant manages many health conditions, including wound care and diabetes management.

Healthcare professionals at Vesta Elder Care include therapists, nurses, home health aides and therapists who provide the required type of support to patients and the elderly.

Contact us now to learn more about our home health care services and attendants.