When appropriate, a companion or home health aide is selected to provide direct care services for the individual. Companions and home health aides are available on an hourly or live-in schedule. Our staff is available on a full-time or as-needed basis 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our in-home care givers are trained and supervised by our nurse and social worker care managers. There are a number of tasks and activities our care giving staff can provide, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Assistance with daily activities such as grooming and dressing, cooking and eating, bathing, toileting and moving
- Help with activities such as shopping, driving, housework, laundry, using the phone, accompanying to doctors' visits and other health related visits and taking medications
- Socialization and companionship
- Facilitating special interests such as the arts, languages, and accompanying to social and sporting activities
- Assistance while traveling
