When is Healthcare Needed ?
“Home care” is a simple phrase that encompasses a wide range of health and social services. These services are delivered at home to recovering, disabled, chronically or terminally ill persons in need of medical, nursing, social, or therapeutic treatment and/or assistance with the essential activities of daily living.
Generally, home care is appropriate whenever a person has difficulty leaving their home but needs ongoing care that cannot easily or effectively be provided solely by family and friends. More and more older people, electing to live independent, non-institutionalized lives, are receiving home care services as their physical capabilities diminish. Younger adults who are disabled or recuperating from acute illness are choosing home care whenever possible. Chronically ill infants and children are receiving sophisticated medical treatment in their loving and secure home environments.
Adults and children diagnosed with terminal illness also are being cared for at home, receiving compassionate care and maintaining dignity at the end of life. As hospital stays decrease, increasing numbers of patients need highly skilled services when they return home. Other patients are able to avoid institutionalization altogether, receiving safe and effective care in the comfort of their own homes.
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Benefits of Home Health Care
Protect Personal Freedom
Once a family member has to make the transition to a residential health care facility, particularly a nursing home, then the client has had to give up a significant amount of freedoms. If the loved one can be cared for at home, they are able to maintain a greater sense of privacy and dignity, and may still “call the shots” to a greater extent about their personal choices regarding meals, schedules and other activities of daily living.
Better Health
When a loved one is aging and has an acute or chronic illness, it is critical that they receive appropriate nutrition, medication, rest, and medical supervision. For many people, home health care workers can help loved ones maintain their level of wellness for a longer period of time.
In fact, research shows that home healthcare services can improve clients’ ability to walk or move around, get in and out of bed, have less pain when moving around, improve bladder control, get better at bathing, are short of breath less often, need less urgent unplanned medical care in general and related to a wound.