A Bit More About Home Health Care Services

Home health care is a broad term which describes a range of in-home health care and general assistance to people with illness and injury or those progressing through the aging process.

For seniors, in particular, home health care services can be an alternative to residing in nursing care facilities, feeling isolated and lonely.

✓ Home Health Care Services are far less expensive than the care seniors receive in hospital settings or nursing facilities.

✓ Certain Home Health Care Services are covered by Medicare.

✓ The services can be customized to highly individual needs of patients.

✓ The level of service can be adjusted for individual ailments.

✓ Personalized home health care can ensure that the patients individual and potentially complex medical needs are covered in a professional and compassionate manner.

Here are some examples of Home Health Care Services you can get for yourself and your loved one:

• Assistance with occupational and physical therapy for post-surgery patients
• Speech therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Infection prevention
• Wound care
• Pain management
• Medication management
• Monitoring blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, and rate of breathing
• Monitoring chronic conditions, serious illness and unstable health problems.