Assisting Hands Home Care is there to assist and provide companionship when you cannot be. You have a lot going on between your job and family demands, but you still try to call, visit, attend doctor appointments, and oversee household repairs. You worry that your loved one is home alone and feeling lonely. This is one of the biggest stress factors affecting adult caregivers.
Whether you live in Montgomery County MD or Fairfax County VA, Assisting Hands Home Care’s companions help relieve family stress and also provide your loved one with the companionship and human interaction necessary for both physical and mental health. Our skilled caregivers work to engage both the mind and the spirit and encourage participation in favorite pastimes and hobbies. Here are just some of the many activities that our caregivers provide to your loved ones.
One of the first things you may want to do is decide what kind of care you or your loved one may need? When defining types of care, you may have heard the words activities of daily living and the instrumental activities of daily living.
Simply, the activities of daily living are basic, routine tasks that most people can perform without assistance. These include items such as bathing, dressing, eating, and using the toilet. Assistance with the activities of daily living is called Personal Care.
The instrumental activities of daily living are also necessary activities that may require added steps. These include items such as cooking, driving, and house cleaning and maintenance. Assistance with the instrumental activities of daily living is called companion care.
A person’s ability (or inability) to adequately perform both groups of activities helps define the services needed to live safely and independently.
Personal Care Assistance
Assisting Hands Home Care caregivers can assist with personal care activities, including:
- Bathing, including grooming activities such as shaving, and brushing teeth and hair
- Dressing, including choosing appropriate garments and assisting with dressing and undressing
- Eating and meal planning
- Personal mobility and transferring to and from a chair, bed or wheel chair
- Incontinence and toileting care
Companionship Care Services
These services keep your loved one engaged and active. Services include activities such as:
- Assistance using the telephone and looking up phone numbers.
- Medication reminders to ensure that medications and correct dosages are taken on time.
- Transportation, including taking you or a loved to doctor appointments, and social and exercise activities.
- Aid with reading
- Answering the door
- Arranging and providing reminders for appointments
- Buying magazines, papers, and books
- Discussing current and historical events
- Monitoring TV usage
- Offering companionship and conversation
- Overseeing home deliveries
- Participating in crafts
- Planning visits, outings, and trips
- Playing games and cards
- Reminiscing about the past
- Renting and playing movies
- Supervising home maintenance
- Visiting neighbors and friends
Grocery Shopping and Other Errands
We know that nutrition, getting to appointments, and just getting out of the house are important to your health or the health of your loved one. This is where Assisting Hands Home Care can help. Our caregivers can provide you or a loved one with the help you need. Here are some of the tasks and errands we can assist with:
- Meal preparation and clean up to help ensure you or your loved one is receiving a healthy, well balanced, and nutritious meal that complies with any special dietary restrictions.
- Shopping and errands for groceries, picking up prescriptions, organizing incoming mail and going to the post office, and any routine personal errands you or a loved one might require.
- Paying bills
- Sorting mail and organizing mail
- Picking up the dry cleaning
- Picking up prescriptions
- Going to the post office
- Taking a walk
- Going to a movie, an exercise class, or a social activity
- Other routine personal errands you or a loved one might require
Light Housekeeping and Cleaning
Your caregiver can provide you or a loved one with housekeeping services. They provide general cleaning such as vacuuming, washing dishes, laundry, bed making, sweeping, taking out the trash, and any other light housekeeping items you or a loved one might require. Let us know your situation and we will provide tailored services to your individual needs. Other tasks we can help with include:
- Maintaining the home by doing laundry and light housekeeping, including vacuuming, washing dishes, laundry, dusting, bed making, sweeping, mopping floors, taking out the trash, and any other light housekeeping items you or a loved one might require.
- Caring for houseplants and pets
- Answering the door
- Supervising home maintenance
- Overseeing home deliveries
Meals and Meal Preparation
Overall health and well-being can be improved by ensuring your loved one is receiving healthy, well-balanced meals. In addition to tasting better, nutritious meals play an important role in maintaining good health.
An Assisting Hands® caregiver can perform everything from grocery shopping to meal planning, preparing meals in accordance with any special diet, serving the meal, providing eating assistance, companionship while eating, and cleaning up afterwards. Just let us know your situation and we will provide tailored home health care services to fit your individual needs. We can also help:
- Check food expiration dates
- Monitor diet and eating
- Prepare grocery lists
- Record and arrange recipes
Whatever companionship services you need, you and your loved one determine the schedule – which can range from a weekly visit to 24-hour care. Assisting Hands® will tailor its services to meet your individual needs.
Assisting Hands Home Care provides a full range of services to assist with both the activities of daily living and the instrumental activities of daily living. You or a loved one determines the schedule, which can range from a weekly visit to 24-hour care, and Assisting Hands® will tailor its services to meet your individual needs.
Coordination of Care
Assisting Hands can also help in determining the specific needs for you and your loved one. From our initial assessment, throughout care, we are keenly aware of needs. Please select our Coordination of Care page for more information on how we work with you.
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