Hourly Home Health Care for a Parent Living in Your Home

Knowing that your parent is no longer safe in their own home is a terrifying realization.  Sometimes the right choice for your family is to have your parent move into your home.  This will solve the major issues like safety concerns, but it also raises other issues you might not have considered.

Maintaining Some Independence

After the move it will become a power of wills between you and your parent concerning how much they can do for themselves.  Often, the medical conditions, and limitations that precipitated the move make some self-care tasks too difficult. The resulting difficulties cause tension in the home, and make the transition even more stressful for everyone.   These self-care tasks are at times too embarrassing and uncomfortable for a child to help a parent perform. 

Hourly Home Health Service

This is where hourly home health care  becomes as integral a part of the care plan for your parent as making sure that he or she takes all medications properly. A Certified Home Health Aide will come in for a few hours to help with self-care tasks such as bathing and grooming, so that your parent feels some sense of independence from you while living in your home.  

Additional Benefits

An added benefit of having a home health aide come in for a few hours at a time is that it offers interaction with another person for your parent. The caregiver will become a trusted companion for the few hours that he or she spends with your parent.  This will protect against isolation, another issue that becomes difficult for an infirm parent who remains home-bound for long stretches of time. 

Contact Us

If you would like more information, Garden State Eldercare would be happy to help by setting up a private consultation to assist you in creating a care plan that meets your specific needs. Contact us for an appointment to discuss your options.