Sometimes we have patients who need senior care services. Today, we were happy to have Jennifer Bolles from Home Instead Senior Care explain to us the many services that complement her company’s in-home Companion Care/Home Helper/personal care services:
- In-home Companion Care/Home Helper services
- eg. Home Instead Senior Care
- – not all of these offer personal care service (eg. Bathing, incontinence assistance, mobility aid), which Home Instead does
- Hospice – end-of-life care
- Palliative – for fragile people in-home, often includes working towards a cure
- Skilled medical care
- Medical Supply Stores – durable medical equipment
- Long-term care insurance
- Geriatric case managers/social workers – works with family to help identify plan of care (supposed to be neutral)
- Assisted living communities
- Independent living communities
- Rehabilitative care (short-term), often with a long-term care wing (nursing homes)
- Independent rehabilitative therapists (eg. respiratory, occupational, physical)