How Can Home Health Help?

Home Health Care may include occupational and physical therapy, speech therapy, and even skilled nursing. It may involve helping the elderly with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, and eating. Or it may include assistance with cooking, cleaning, other housekeeping jobs, and monitoring one’s daily regimen of prescription and over-the-counter medications. Even if you have special needs, you can still stay in the home where you are most comfortable. Home health services workers are specially trained to assist people who are getting older, recovering from surgery or an illness, or those who are disabled. Home health services should not be considered an alternative to moving to a nursing home, but are instead an ideal option when full-time care is not required, but additional assistance is necessary in order to complete regular daily health, personal, and housekeeping tasks.

  • Housekeeping – for example: cleaning, laundry, and yard work.
  • Cooking and meal delivery–including healthy meals three times per day.
  • Personal care – such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
  • Health care – for special health services, such as medication and other treatments Whatever you need to ensure that you can live comfortably and safely at home, home health services can provide.

Whatever you need to ensure that you can live comfortably and safely at home, home health services can provide.

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