Personal Care Services

This category of service helps your family member with basic daily tasks, also known as Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), that may require a little extra support. Although the focus of these services is physical assistance, our home health aides are compassionate and attentive to each client’s emotional needs:

• Help with mobility in and outside of the home.
• Oral and personal hygiene
• Dressing and grooming
• Help with toileting.
• Outpatient pre- and post-op assistance
• Bathing: Bathroom and bathing assistance – showering, bathtub assistance, bed-bath, or hair washing.
• Grooming including dressing, hair care, and oral      hygiene.
• Dressing: Total or partial assistance with dressing
• Remind clients to take medications as needed at appropriate times.
• Transfers: Assist client bed to wheelchair and/or      reverse in/out of shower or bathtub, use of mechanical lift or transfer board may be necessary.
• Positioning may also necessitate lifting.
• Toileting: Assist client getting on/off bedpan, commode or toilet; diapering
• Exercise: Assist client with exercise equipment and/or range of motion exercises.
• Laundering: Assistance with laundry as needed.
• Environment: Maintain a safe, clean and healthy      environment through light housekeeping including changing bed linens, cleaning client’s quarters; vacuuming, cleaning kitchen and bathrooms.
• Meal Preparation: Prepare and serves food for clients following special prescribed diets, and if necessary, feeding the client.
• Doctor visits: Accompany to hospital, clinic, and      therapy visits.