If you need help, you’re not alone. Whether your elderly loved one lives next door or hundreds of miles away, Assisting Hands provides caregiving services for thousands of families just like yours across the nation. We can help you, too!
Custom Care Plan
When you call us we’ll ask questions to form a basic needs assessment, then set up an in-home visit. After our initial meeting, we develop a custom care plan tailored to your loved one’s specific needs, and make detailed recommendations on services. We then review the plan with you in detail and modify it as you and your loved one see fit.
Caregiver Matching
Once you approve the custom care plan, we match your elderly loved one with the most appropriate caregiver possible by considering numerous factors: services needed, interests, and the personalities of both caregiver and client. Of course, if you ever have any concerns about a specific caregiver, we can promptly arrange a replacement.
Quality Care
Every Assisting Hands caregiver goes through an extensive interview process, including background and reference checks. Caregivers are trained and bonded/insured before ever caring for a client. Then, local supervisory staff visit your loved one’s home periodically to ensure things are going well and that caregivers are following the specifics of the custom care plan.
Special Care Situations
Caring for a loved one who has special needs due to an illness or injury can be overwhelming, which makes Assisting Hands perfect for either full-time care or respite. We have the right people to help — caring, compassionate and trained caregivers who can accommodate numerous special physical and mental situations. We have the best services, so you can rest assured that we can deliver the care required, when it’s required. And, we have the planned approach, which means your elderly loved one will receive a customized care regimen that takes their special needs and their environment into account.
At Assisting Hands it is our mission to serve our elderly clients in a comprehensive and compassionate manner. In addition to our caregiving services delivered in the comfort of our client’s home, we believe in coordinating the full spectrum of elder care services available in the community to aid our clients in securing the best possible outcome for their health and well-being.
Coordination of Care
When a client begins service with Assisting Hands®, a full assessment of needs will be done and a care plan will be implemented to address each of the needs identified. As a part of this process, Assisting Hands® will assist each client in identifying additional elderly care services in their community available through the Area Agency on Aging, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Veteran’s Administration, and local Senior Centers. Some of the elder care services Assisting Hands® can help our clients and their loved ones find education and guidance on are:
- Respite hours for family caregivers
- Reverse mortgages
- Advanced directives
- Power of attorney assignment
- Estate planning
- Medicare benefits
- Medicaid waiver options
- Senior social events
How do I pay for home care services?
Medicare, Medicaid and most employer-sponsored HMO and PPO plans will only reimburse you for intermittent visits from a home care nurse on a temporary basis and only when your loved one has a specific qualifying medical diagnosis. In general, these types of insurance policies are not designed to pay for ongoing, hourly caregiving services that are classified as “Long-Term Care.”
That said, there are many other financial options available to you in order to pay for ongoing care services:
• Long-term care insurance
• Reverse mortgages
• Employer-sponsored Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Family trust funds
• Employee-sponsored caregiving stipends, such as “Backup Care” programs for employees who are adult caregivers and travel for work
• Workers’ compensation insurance
• State-subsidized home- and community-based services, often referred to as “Medicaid Waiver” programs (Age and income qualifications apply.)
• Veterans Aid and Attendance
• Catastrophic auto insurance
Navigating through the myriad of elderly care services available in the community can often times be cumbersome and confusing. For help in identifying the best elder care service options for you or your loved one, call your local Assisting Hands office today and let us ease some of the burden – (407) 258-1223. Our agency is committed to serving the care needs of seniors living in and around Orlando, Windermere, Winter Garden, Ocoee & Apopka, Florida.
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