Home Health Aides
More than 65 million Americans juggle the daily demand of home, work, children, and caring for their aging or ill loved one. All the responsibilities can leave a person feeling overwhelmed. More often than not, the demand and pressure of providing care to your loved ones can result in caregiver burnout. It usually occurs when you, as a family caregiver, do not get the help you need or you are trying to do it all by yourself.
Role of a Home Health Aide
At Patients Choice & Physicians Choice, our mission is to help our clients stay in their familiar surrounding while getting the care they need to live an active and independent life.
All our services are provided by registered nurses or licensed home health aides who collaborate with the patient to devise a customized plan of care. Home health aide provides non-medical and medical home care services to patients in their homes.
Responsibilities of a home health aide can vary according to the patient’s needs. Some of the duties of a home health aide include:
- Taking vital signs
- Help drive the patient to and from the medical appointments
- Administer basic medications
- Assist the patient in purchasing groceries and preparing meals
- Change bedding, assist with dressing the patient and help with basic grooming
While some home health aides work with the patients who need round-the-clock care, others travel back and forth to the patient’s home several times a day.
Benefits of Hiring Home Health Aides
There are a number of benefits of hiring professional and reliable home health aides. Some of them include but are not limited to:
Caring for your Aging parents
If you are living in a different city or continent than your aging loved ones, it can become difficult for you to care for them. This is when home health aides can give you peace of mind. Licensed, trained, and qualified professionals can assess safety risks for seniors and make simple corrections in the home to make sure your loved ones are safe at home.
Support Activities of Daily Livings (ADLs)
Home health aide helps aging adults receive day-to-day care while helping them maintain a good quality of life. They can provide assistance with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing up, grooming, and medication reminders.
Support with Nutrition and Diet
Are your aging parents getting the right nutrition they need to stay healthy? Seniors age 65 and older, are likely to be nutritionally at risk because of their medical condition. Moreover, bed rest, aging, injury, or illness can contribute to loss of lean body mass. Home health aide may offer home-cooked nutritious meals to protect your parents from malnutrition.
Medication Management
Seniors are already required to take multiple prescriptions in a day to cater to their illness. However, this number increases many folds if they have recently experienced a fall or were involved in an accident. Home health aides can ensure that the patient is taking the right medications at the right dose and at the right time to control the health conditions from worsening.
For families, home health aides can be the support they need to manage their caregiving responsibility and avoid caregiver burnout.
