Choosing the Best Home Attendant Services
Are you looking for a home care agency to offer home attendant services for your loved ones? Choosing the best home attendant service provider is not an easy thing to do, and there are a number of important factors you need to consider before taking this major decision.
From security and efficiency to availability and price, there are a number of requirements that need to be satisfied. Nevertheless, before choosing a home care agency, the first step is determining the patient’s level of care. Generally, the home care agencies provide two types of home attendant services: custodial care and skilled care.
Skilled Care and Custodial Care
Under the category of skilled care, the patient’s medical requirements are fulfilled. These include providing injections on time, medicines on time and keeping health vitals in proper check. These services are offered under post-surgical care and post-hospital care.
Custodial care involves the home care attendants and nurses focusing on providing patients and the elderly help with daily activities. These include shopping, housekeeping, personal care, meal cooking and feeding.
Therefore, it is important for you to analyse your patient’s condition and requirements first and then decide on the level of care that will be best suited for them.
Points to Cross-Check When Choosing Home Attendant Services
There are a number of points you need to cross-check when choosing home attendant services. These include:
Services Offered
Try and understand the range of home health care services provided by the home care agency. Vesta Elder Care offers specialist services, post-surgical care; paralysis care; physiotherapy and elderly care. The agency has certified and experienced nurses perfectly trained in providing hospital-like attention and care to the patients in the comforts of their homes.
Staff
When choosing home attendant services, you need to ensure that the nurses and the healthcare attendants working for the agency are qualified enough. Make sure they have been appointed only after they have passed the strict recruitment guidelines successfully and on the basis of the knowledge they possess.
Ensure that the agency has hired them only after cross-checking their educational qualification certificates to maintain the authenticity of their in-home care solutions. Selected staff working for a home attendant service provider should be strictly trained to provide top-quality home care.
Security
The home care attendants and staff should have gone through a stringent background check, and they must be thoroughly verified and declared clean-chit of all kinds of unlawful activities before being appointed. It is also important for you to confirm that the home nursing care staff of the agency is registered with the local police for security purposes.
Availability
First of all, decide on the period you require home attendant services. You can go for both 12-hour and 24/7 home care services based on the requirements of your loved ones. Make sure the requirements of your patient are fulfilled through proper staff availability.
Vesta Elder Care is one of the leading providers of home attendant services across the Delhi and Delhi NCR regions. We offer in-home nursing attendants for different varieties of care and attention.
Visit our official website at www.vestaeldercare.com to know more about our home nursing services.
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Dr. Prateek Bhardwaj is the COO of Vesta Elder Care. a physiotherapist by profession and Prateek joined the Vesta team at its time of inception. His years of experience have enriched Vesta to become a service-oriented organization and have guided the team through its many milestones