Senior home care services are a host of specialized services dedicated to fill the needs of elderly residents in senior nursing homes or in assisted care facilities.
Senior home care services vary depending on the needs of the elderly resident. The core senior home care include personal care services (bathing, dressing, feeding, sitting in chairs and sleeping); nursing care services (medication, blood pressure records, would dressing, progress report documentation); professional healthcare services (counseling, therapies, massage, diagnostic and dialysis services).
Licensed caregivers, nurses, nursing aides, speech therapists, physical therapists and social workers may provide one or a combination of these senior home care services under the supervision of a home care officer-in-charge, who is usually also a medical professional. The senior home care staff may stay in the facility as live-in service provider or report for work on a daily scheduled shift.
General senior home care services are provided by residential nursing homes while specialized services are found in dedicated home care centers like clinical nursing homes. Some facilities provide both personal and skilled medical care services by employing a mix of social workers and professional medical staff.
Round-the-clock senior home care services are instrumental in the speedy recovery of elderly patients suffering from physical sickness as well as psychological or emotional illness. Adequate and efficient senior home care services also enable many patients to go back to their homes and begin life anew as independent individuals.
