Personalized care based on individual needs.
Home care allows individuals to stay in the comfort of their own home environment through assistance with tiring everyday tasks that might otherwise make it difficult to manage on their own. Home care can be customized to any person’s needs in order to help them be successful and independent at home.
Home Care
Freedom Home Care can assist in personal care including:
- Bathing, toileting and personal hygiene assistance
- Grooming and dressing supervision
- Ambulation assistance and fall prevention
- Medication reminders
- Meal preparation and menu planning
- Laundry
- Changing bed linens
- Light housekeeping including dusting and vacuuming
- Assistance with pet care
- Shopping and errands
- Transportation to appointments, religious services and various social outings
Freedom Home Care can provide companion services including:
- Provide support, friendship and socialization
- Overall monitoring of well-being
- Encourage and assist in participation with social activities such as games, exercise classes, community events and hobbies
- Assistance with corresponding with family and friends
- Alzheimer’s care
- Respite care for family members
- Hospital sitting
Freedom Home Care can help with medical services including:
- Medication management services
- Hands-on assistance with transfers and mobility
- Delegated nursing tasks to caregivers
24 hour care provides home care services in the clients’ home for two to three shifts each day equaling around-the-clock care, which allows the for continuity of care in the comfort of their own home. LEARN MORE
| Services | Home Care | Home Health |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, Occupational or Speech Therapy | x | |
| Skilled nursing services | x | |
| Administration of medication/injections | x | |
| Medical tests | x | |
| Monitoring of health status | x | |
| Wound care for pressure sores or surgical wound | x | |
| Dressing, bathing, grooming | x | |
| Toileting | x | |
| Stand by assistance | x | |
| Meal preparation | x | |
| House cleaning | x | |
| Transportation | x | |
| Medication reminders | x | x |
| Pain Management | x | |
| Companionship | x | |
| Incontinence care | x | |
| Payment | ||
| Private Pay (unusual for Home Health) | x | x |
| Long-term care insurance (varies by policy) | x | |
| Medicaid for qualified low-income seniors | x | x |
| Covered by Medicare when prescribed by physician | x | |
| Private Health Insurance | x | |
| When needed | ||
| Prescribed care by a physician | x | |
| Transitioning home from inpatient hospitalization, rehabilitation or skilled nursing facility | x | x |
| Monitoring patient after a recent medication change | x | |
| Therapy to compensate for an overall decline in functioning. | x | |
| Assistance is required with activities of daily living | x | |
| Transportation for an individual that no longer drives | x | |
| Living alone with risk of social isolation | x |
