Home Health Care

Managing in home care workers when you have elderly home health care services in the home can seem like a full time job. Putting systems in place and taking preventative measures will make the transition of having in home health care services an easier transition.

There is a trade off to keeping a family member at home for as long as possible. Many family caregivers make huge sacrifices that affect their own close relationships, careers, financial status and health. Usually, there is one family member that provides all the care the other family members have little to no involvement.

Providing care for elderly in home care can take its toll on a family caregiver. There are resources available to you to assist you in the home. Once you have the providers in place, I will help you put some systems and preventative measure in place to give you peace of mind.

Whether you are a long distance caregiver or the family caregiver that lives in the same neighborhood, these systems and measures will work for you. The first step to any relationship is communication. Managing or overseeing, whatever you see your role here; this is going to be very different from any other role you have had in the past. Even if you are a seasoned manager over many people, this still will be a different experience for you.

I will explain. Elderly home health care workers are individuals that are going to be providing very intimate services in the sanctuary of your home. This is a delicate situation on many different levels.

The aging senior has expectations of things done a certain way at a certain time, just the way they like it. The home health care worker is coming into a person's home and must learn their routines, likes and dislikes wants and needs. It is not an easy job.

Some seniors just cannot be pleased and the slightest little thing has them upset and frustrated. So the first thing that you will need to prepare yourself to learn is to communicate and compromise.

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When a new individual is first introduced to the home and the aging senior, try to be there and help make them familiar with the surroundings. Try to have a place to put their belongings, a place in the refrigerator to keep their lunch and drinks. If they are going to be there long hours, offering food or take out menus from local places that will deliver would be thoughtful.

Long hours means a place to get a break, so make sure that you give permission to use a room or a table or allow for some privacy to make phone calls on those breaks.

Acknowledge when a health are provider does something right. Praise goes a long way. If a worker does something exceptional, take time to put it in writing to the company to the attention of their supervisor.

Encourage a relationship between you and the in home care employees. They are there to care for your aging parents, but they will be there and see and hear things you may miss. Or your parent may try to hide something from you that they will tell the health care worker and not you.

Monitoring in home care is the next step and that should be done on a regular basis. For those that are long distance care givers ask neighbors, family or church members to stop in unannounced intermittently. Elderly home health care when managed properly and preventative measures are put into place will allow an individual to remain in the comfort or their home, for as long as possible.