Many families get home care and nursing home services confused, often mixing the terms and services together. The truth is, there are several significant differences between home care and nursing home services, including: the ability to serve multiple client types, flexibility in service requirements and healthcare management.
Home Care Can Bring Service to Anyone, Anywhere, Young and Old
The advantage of home care is that it can be delivered practically anywhere at any time. Families can experience the best caretaking services in private homes, apartments, and even assisted living facilities.
Nursing homes, on the other hand, are located in only one place. Nursing homes only provide services for the elderly, while home care services provide care for any individual who needs it.
Flexible Home Care Plans
Pro-Med-Care offers a variety of nursing and personal care services that are tailormade for our clients. As an agency we go through an extensive matchmaking process to pair the client with a carer who will assist the client in his/her home.
Pro-Med-Care’s Operational Manager meets with families to develop a tailormade care plan that caters for the client’s specific needs.
Nursing homes often have standardised plans that means families are not given the customised life experience they need and deserve.
Pro-Med-Care offers various shift options, including day-care, night-care or live-in care.
Benefits of Home Care
Effective home care keeps clients in their comfort zones, which decreases confusion and anxiety. Home care is proven to be a valid way to manage chronic conditions and reduce expensive hospital visits.
Home care provides families with the freedom to visit their loved ones at any time. Where the client lives with their family, he/she feels part of the day-to-day happenings.
In nursing homes, the individual can easily become isolated unless a staff member attends to their specific needs. With home nursing, the care is focused on the individual for the duration of the care shift
With home care, clients have the benefit of companionship, transportation to any appointments and outings according to the individual’s diary and preferences.
Comprehensive Health Care Management
Home care provides both medical and personal care services. Pro-Med-Care provide tailormade services like: tailormade care planning, arrange and monitor in-home help, assistance with forms and paperwork, act as family liaison when family members live far away, meal planning and preparation, pet care and light housekeeping.
Personal care services could include: skin care, nail care, hair care, mouth care, personal hygiene and physio therapy exercises.
Nursing homes perform some of the care services mentioned above, but it is unfortunately not personalised and more than one person is allocated to assist the individual.
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