What is Home Health?
What are Home Health Services?
Home care provides services to persons of all ages and includes preventive, acute,
sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long-term care. Services range from simple
assistance in activities of daily living to high-tech IV
therapy. Respite care is short-term temporary relief for caregivers and
is available under the most appropriate category of care to meet the needs of
the client and caregivers.
What is Long-term Care?
Long-term care is different from traditional
medical care. Someone with a chronic physical illness, a disability, or a
memory or thought problem (such as Alzheimer's disease) often needs long-term
care. Long-term care is made up of many different services and may include help
with activities of daily living such as dressing, bathing, eating, and using
the bathroom, as well as help with things most people can do for themselves,
such as using eye drops. These services may be provided in your home, in senior
centers, at community centers, in assisted living facilities, or in nursing
homes.
What are Personal Assistance Services?
Personal Assistance Services provides routine, ongoing care or services required by an
individual in a residence or independent living environment that enable the
individual to engage in the activities of daily living or to perform the
physical functions required for independent living, including respite services.
Personal care, such as feeding, transferring, toileting, ambulation and exercise,
bathing, dressing, grooming, routine care of hair and skin, meal preparation,
and assistance with medications normally self-administered may be provided by
unlicensed personnel, without nursing supervision. Unlicensed personnel under
RN delegation and supervision may perform other services, such as intermittent
catheterizations, gastrostomy tube feedings, and administration of medications.
No physician's orders are required.