SeniorCare Experts Custom Home Care Services

Five Benefits of Professional Home Care

1. Professional Expertise for Personal Care
Our professional caregivers are trained, experienced, and have expertise in caring for the personal needs of the elderly. They employ proper techniques for assistance and support in bathing, dressing, toileting and grooming. These tasks need to be carefully performed. Family members may be willing to help out, but not know how, leading to possible safety issues as well. All of SeniorCare Experts caregivers have been trained, background checked, TB tested and bonded.

2. Social Interaction
If family members, friends and neighbors can't make regular visits, a senior at home alone may become isolated, lonely and depressed. Many need the chance to talk and interact with other people so they will remain connected with the outside world and engaged in life. Just having a conversation with a friend or companion stimulates the brain and helps keep mental acuities sharp. Our professional caregivers are trained to provide conversation, companionship and social interaction with seniors.

3. Physical Support and Medication Adherence
If you or your loved one is not eating on time or nutritionally, professional caregivers can help. Preparing a meal so that aromas can stimulate taste buds is important, as is coaxing the senior to eat. Not having support in the home to keep nutritional standards high can have devastating results.

Medications is another area of great importance. Medications need to be taken at the right times and in the correct doses - not doing so can lead to unnecessary doctor visits or hospital admissions. An in home caregiver can keep up with the medication schedule and remind the senior to take their medications. (SeniorCare Experts also offers the Philips Medication Dispensing Service to help when in-home caregiving is not available.)

4. Caring For the Home
SeniorCare Experts caregivers are there to help with the activities of daily living that simply become too challenging for the senior at home to do themselves. These seemingly mundane tasks are very important and must be completed so that the home remains clean, sanitary and safe for residence. Caregiving service can include important light housekeeping tasks such as changing bed linens, keeping clutter straightened, cleaning and putting away dishes, doing laundry and keeping bathrooms sanitized. Caregivers can also collect and sort mail, help the senior write letters and pay bills if needed. They can check smoke detectors and report any safety issues to office support so that the home can remain a safe and clean environment in which to reside.

5. Freeing Up Time
Professional caregiver services free up family members' time. The tasks listed above highlight what is necessary to keep a senior not only safe at home, but also healthy and engaged in life. Well-meaning family members, friends or neighbors often want to help out and sometimes feel they can provide all the support that is necessary. This can become overwhelming very quickly. Work and younger family obligations often don't allow for the amount of time necessary to support a senior at home. Professional caregiving services can be a very good solution - even if the caregivers come in just to provide respite for those doing the bulk of the caregiving. If caregivers can perform some of the housekeeping tasks, family members are free to enjoy more social time with their loved one. A senior may like to be taken out to eat once a week more than watching you do the laundry or vacuuming.

In short, SeniorCare Experts' caregivers are there to offer care and support to both you and your loved one. The senior's physical and mental needs will be attended to, as will the home itself. The caregiving plan we develop will be designed to help the senior remain healthy, happy and independent at home.

Call us to set up a schedule of professional caregiving today! Call Ann Cogswell at 502-896-2316 to get started.