Refers to round the clock treatment in a home environment. The care may be shared by multiple caregivers or a single caregiver.
Continuing Care Retirement Communities offer all levels of care on one campus (independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing). An endowment fee may be required that entitles residents to use assisted or skilled services when needed throughout their lifetime. Each community offers varied buy-in and payment plan options.
The facility either offers in house doctor visits or will take the resident to their doctor.
Refers to round the clock treatment in a home environment. The care may be shared by multiple caregivers or by a single caregiver.
Some communities have a restriction on the youngest age they are allowed to accept. These restrictions vary by community.
Typically apartment-style with kitchenettes and private baths. Some offer companion accommodations. Personal assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, eating and ambulation. Rates vary from an all-inclusive to base rates with levels of care. Amenities vary for each community.
Refers to services including patient assessment, specific diet information, and management of the disease process, medication management and education. Cardiac rehabilitation is a program designed to help a person with heart disease return to health. Cardiac rehabilitation may consist of exercise, modifying risk factors to prevent further heart damage' or psychological rehabilitation.
Continuing Care Retirement Communities offer all levels of care on one campus (independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing). An endowment fee may be required that entitles residents to use assisted or skilled services when needed throughout their lifetime. Each community offers varied buy-in and payment plan options.
Refers to most Home Health Agencies providing wound care services to their clients. Some agencies may employ specialty nurses to provide and instruct in care specifically for ostomy patients and for more complicated wounds.
Refers to services provided by a companion/sitter to be with your family member for a specified amount of time each day up to and including 24-hour supervision. The companions may provide assistance with routine household activities such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, errands and shopping. Many agencies provide transportation and supervision to physicians offices, grocery and clothing shopping as well as recreational activities. Companions are able to perform a wide variety of other non medical tasks and activities that are designed to assist the elderly to remain at home as long as possible. By law homemakers and companions are not able to provide hands on personal care such as assistance with bathing and bathroom personal care needs. They may not dispense medications for their clients.
A facility that will take on a resident with complex care needs such as tracks
If the patient is not a Medicare Recipient and is covered by the VA, the VA will make payments directly to their contracted agencies. If a patient is a Veteran, but is a Medicare Recipient, they may choose any Medicare approved hospice agency for their care.