What Is Home Health Care?
How do you know when your loved one is ready for in home health care? How do you choose someone you can trust and is reliable?
Wh
ether you are forced into a decision quickly because of surgery or a fall, or you’ve spent months wondering what your next step should be, choosing an in home care provider is a difficult task.
Eldercare has a great resource that provides a list of 20 questions to think about as you are hiring an in home care provider. Questions like:
- How long has the agency been serving this community? and
- How closely do supervisors oversee care to ensure quality?
may seem obvious.
Check through the entire list and use it as a guideline when meeting your potentials.
Once you make your selection, it also provides you with a list of things to tell the health care worker. Even little things can make a caregivers job a lot easier. You may know your loved one’s likes and dislikes; the caregiver doesn’t. Having key pieces of information can save both your loved one and the caregiver frustration.
