As more seniors choose to age in place during retirement, many eventually require assistance to maintain their independence. While some families can provide help with household tasks and personal care, not all are able to do so. Even when families can assist, their loved one’s care needs may become overwhelming. In such cases, professional elderly home care services are an excellent solution, ensuring seniors receive the care and support they need to live safely and comfortably at home. Professional elderly caregivers can provide your senior loved ones with the care they need to live safely at home.
At Assisting Hands Home Care, we provide elderly home care services for seniors in Sarasota, FL, and the surrounding areas. Our staff will meet with you and your loved ones to assess their care needs so we can form a care plan tailored to their unique needs. Your loved ones will then be cared for by our trained and licensed caregivers.
Comprehensive Elderly Home Care
We begin our elderly care services with a thorough in-home assessment, during which we meet with you and your loved ones to understand their specific care needs. From this assessment, we develop a personalized care plan tailored to meet those needs and establish a caregiver schedule. We carefully select a caregiver who is best suited to provide the necessary care and support for your loved one.
All of our caregivers have undergone background checks and are fully certified, bonded, and insured, ensuring that they will provide compassionate and respectful care. Beyond meeting physical needs, our caregivers also build meaningful relationships with your loved ones, offering companionship through engaging conversations and enjoyable activities, fostering both trust and friendship.
Elderly Home Care Services in Sarasota County
As our elderly loved ones age, maintaining independence and quality of life can become difficult. Our team of professional caregivers specializes in elderly home care services, offering compassionate, personalized care to help seniors remain comfortable in their own homes.
The following can be included in the elderly care plan in Sarasota, FL & the surrounding areas for your loved ones:
- Personal care: Our caregivers can help your loved ones with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, toileting, and other personal hygiene activities.
- Fall prevention: Falls are the leading cause of injuries among the elderly. Our caregivers will reduce the risk of falls by helping your loved ones move throughout the home and removing possible trip hazards.
- Meal preparation: If your senior loved ones can no longer cook for themselves, we can prepare daily meals for your loved ones that accommodate their dietary restrictions.
- Light housekeeping: We can help your loved ones keep the house neat and clean by doing light housekeeping duties like laundry, vacuuming, and washing dishes.
- Transportation and errands: Many seniors must give up their driving privileges which makes it much harder to get around. We can provide rides to help your loved ones get to doctor appointments and other important engagements and we can help with errands.
- Companionship: Our caregivers are more than just providers of care, we will also be social companions for your loved ones. We build personal relationships with our clients through friendly conversation and fun activities.
- Alzheimer’s and dementia care: It is important or those suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia to receive specialized care in the familiar environment of their homes. Our caregivers can provide effective memory care for those suffering from all forms of dementia.
- Post-surgical care: We can help your elderly loved ones transition back home after a surgery or hospital stay and ensure that they get enough rest and follow their discharge instructions for their recovery.
- Respite care: If a family member provides care for your elderly loved ones, they will need to take some time off. We can take over for a family caregiver with our respite care services.
- Overnight care: In some cases, it may not be safe to leave your elderly loved ones home alone at night. We can take care of your loved ones with our overnight care services in which our caregiver will arrive in the evening and stay awake through the night to provide care and assistance.
- Live-in/ 24-hour senior in-home care: If your loved one needs a caregiver present 24 hours a day, we can help with our live-in and 24-hour care services. With our live-in care, we will have a caregiver live in the home with your loved one and they will need time to sleep at night. With our 24-hour care services, multiple caregivers will rotate shifts so that there is always a caregiver awake and alert in the home.
- Hospice Care: Hospice is a non-medical, non-nursing care approach to managing terminal illness. Hospice services provide patients with assessment, comfort measures, and emotional and spiritual support for the patient, family, and friends.
24-Hour Elderly Care Services
Assisting Hands’ 24-hour home care typically involves more than one certified caregiver who stays in the home 24 hours a day to provide assistance with daily activities and ensure safety. This can be especially beneficial for individuals like you who want to remain at home while dealing with comorbidities of the aging process. Here are some key aspects of 24-hour home care:
- Personal Care: Assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, incontinence, assistance with transferring, and toileting.
- Medication Management: Ensuring medications are taken as prescribed.
- Meal Preparation: Preparing meals that meet the dietary needs and preferences of your elderly loved one.
- Housekeeping: Light cleaning, laundry, and other household chores.
- Companionship: Providing emotional support, conversation, and engaging activities.
- Safety Monitoring: Ensuring a safe living environment, is especially important for those with mental health concerns.
- Transportation: Provide transportation to doctor’s appointments, visiting friends, places of worship, and other locations as requested.
- Errand Runs: Run errands such as picking up groceries and medications.
Assisting Hands offers caregivers who are dedicated to providing the highest level of quality care for the elderly. Our goal is to provide seniors with a healthy and independent life at home while offering compassionate guidance and support.
Call Assisting Hands for an In-Home Consultation
Sometimes all we need is a hand. Assisting Hands is on a mission to help you or your loved ones to remain happy, and at home. If you have elderly loved ones in Sarasota, FL & the surrounding areas who could benefit from professional elderly home care, call Assisting Hands Home Care at (941) 315-2336 to schedule a free in-home consultation.
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