Taking the Confusion Out of Home Care

Home Care can be confusing. 

If you’re one of the many Texans who are feeling overwhelmed by the healthcare system, you’re not alone. Healthcare and home care options can be confusing. Let us help you better understand how home care fits into the healthcare landscape and how it can help you or your loved one.

What is Home Care?

Here are a few points to help clear some things up for you.

1. Home care is a broad term that means any medical or non-medical care provided in a primary place of residence. This can include care in a single-family home, at an in-law suite, or even in an assisted living or skilled nursing facility.

2. Home care is generally divided into two main areas, home health and home care:

• Home health includes medical care such as medication management and organization, PEG tube care, trach care, wound care, etc.
• Home care, on the other hand, includes both Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). ADLs include things like dressing and bathing, while IADLs encompass activities such as cooking, cleaning, and transportation.

Why Do Our Clients Need it?

There are many reasons why people in the Boerne, Fair Oaks and Leon Springs areas might need home care. Some of the reasons why home care might be necessary include:

• Hospitalization
• Surgery
• Wound care
• Change in primary caregiver
• Chronic disease management
• Decline in ability to do things independently
• Dementia (changes in thinking, reasoning or memory)

Home care can provide the support people need to overcome these challenges and live their lives as independently as possible. If you or someone you know is in need of home care, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Why Would Our Clients Want Home Care?

Getting older isn’t easy. But with the help of home care, you can stay in your own home longer and enjoy a better quality of life. Home care provides you with the assistance and support you need to continue living independently. It may even keep you safer for longer. We know we’re caring for our clients in the most private of spaces: their primary residence. That’s why we’re dedicated to providing the best possible care for our clients.

Family caregivers also call on us to temporarily relieve them of caregiving duties. Our respite care services provide the break and rest that a caregiver needs to ease stress and avoid burnout. Whether they need an afternoon, a weekend, or longer, we can step in to care for a loved one and give the caregiver time to recharge.

If you or a loved one are in need of home care, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re here to help you live your best life.