What do we all strive to maintain as we approach and enter the senior years of our lives? For many seniors, career success has been achieved, families have been raised, and lives have been full. Now it is time to relax and enjoy the fruits of a lifetime of labor. Most seniors want to enjoy this in the comfort of their homes; whether that is a home they’ve lived in most of their lives, an independent living facility, continuous care retirement community, or assisted living facility. Wherever they live, most seniors desire the peace of mind to maintain a dignified, quality life.
How can a senior remain in their home and age in place? For many, geriatric care managers, living assistance services, and home healthcare services provide the answer.
Geriatric Care Managers can provide the advocacy and care many seniors lose when family is displaced across the state, country or even world or grown children are busy with their own careers and small children. Geriatric Care Managers can assist seniors, their families, and their physicians as they confront the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of aging with services that include: assessment and evaluation of specific health and social needs and coordination of home healthcare, private-pay living assistance services and other resources. They can provide ongoing medical monitoring and medication management. Geriatric Care Managers can also provide education, advocacy, and counseling.
Living Assistance Services in the home can range from homemaking assistance and companionship to personal care services, and are often non-medical in nature. Private-pay Caregivers can run errands, shop, and prepare meals. They can provide transportation to and from appointments. From bathing and other personal care services to companionship, caregivers can assist in maintaining a quality and dignity of life that most seniors desire.
When medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or congestive heart failure exacerbate, homecare nurses, physical or occupational therapists and other allied health professionals can be called in to coordinate care.
For those at the end stages of life, palliative care and hospice services provided in the home allow a person’s dignity to remain until the very end while providing comfort, symptom management and pain control, as well as emotional support to the senior and their family.
If you or a loved one are in need of any of these full continuum of home healthcare services, contact Celtic Healthcare at 800-355-8894 or visit www.celtichealthcare.com to receive a complimentary assessment in your home where we will listen to your concerns and help you find solutions to maintaining peace of mind, dignity and quality of life.