In-home Care: A Viable Alternative to Providing Quality Care for a Loved One.
When it comes to caring for someone you love, quality care is always the top priority. Making the decision to provide this care in the comfort of your home or your loved one’s home is comforting, yet challenging.

This section is designed to explain the type of assistance to consider when choosing in-home care.

Homemaker Assistance
Homemaker services provide assistance for persons having difficulty with one or more “instrumental activities of daily living” or (IADLs), like preparing meals, shopping for personal items, using the telephone, or doing light housework.

Personal Care
Personal care services provides assistance with one or more of the following IADLs like eating, dressing, bathing, toileting and transferring in and out of bed. In some cases, the personal care provider may simply serve as a stand-by in these instances just in case assistance is need.

Respite Care
Respite care is a service which provides maintenance and supervision in the individual’s residence to provide temporary relief to the usual caregiver. Respite care services include, at the minimal, the following services:

Supervision. The respite care provider offers personal oversight of the participant for the duration of the service period.

Companionship. In this instance, the provider will serve as a companion during the participant’s waking hours and attempt to make the client as comfortable as possible.

Care Connection provides these services for qualified individuals on a short-term basis. Individuals can also privately pay for these services through an in-home provider agency.

For more information about In-home Care, contact Care Connection at 1-800-748-7826. Also, MoAging.com contains information about "How to Hire an In-home Care Provider" as well other useful information.