In-Home Services
In-home care agencies provide trained caregivers to assist clients with tasks such as housekeeping, meal preparation, personal care, running errands, transportation, and medication set-up. Some agencies provide dementia care training to their staff. Respite care can also be provided so that a family caregiver can take a much needed break. Agencies may charge higher rates than those listed below for nights and weekends.
Home Health Care
Home Health Care (according to Medicare.gov) is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury. Home health care aims to treat an illness or injury; it can help you get better, regain your independence, become as self-sufficient as possible, maintain your current condition or level of function, and slow decline. It can keep you out of skilled nursing. It is short-term, physician-directed care, and Medicare or your other insurance will cover most. Physician orders are needed to start care, and a licensed nurse will complete an assessment. Then it may include any combination of the following: nursing, caregivers, social work, physical, occupational, and/or speech therapies. Some Home Health Care provides Private Duty Nursing Care. This is long-term hourly nursing (RN) care at home for adults with chronic illness, injury, or disability.
See the glossary for descriptions of all categories
