Alzheimer's In-Home Care Services

Household Activities (early stage)  - Home care early on provides support for common household activities that are no longer easy for seniors to do themselves.  It includes things such as:

• placing phone calls
• driving to do shopping, pushing a cart and reaching for things on shelves
• meal preparations
• laundry and cleaning
• reaching things on shelves or getting things in hard to reach places (closets, basements, etc).

Wellbeing Care (early stage) – Home care early on provides assistance and guidance to clients with wellbeing activities.  It includes things such as:

• setting up medications for the week
• going for walks for exercise
• preparing foods that support their nutritional diet
• companionship through conversation and gameplay
• conducting safety checks and eliminating common fall hazards in the home

Personal Care (early stage) – Personal care activities can be difficult for Seniors to accept help with but are ones that can not be skipped. Personal care in the early stages focuses on caregivers providing direction and assistance in the following areas:

• assistance and/or direction in getting clients dressed (getting clothing, buttoning, putting earrings on, etc.)
• transferring to/from lying or sitting positions
• assistance getting to the bathroom (on and off the toilet)
• assistance into and out of the shower safely.

While the focus, frequency, and length of the visits are customized to the needs of the individual, this stage commonly requires in-home care 1-3 times a week over a 2-3 hour span.

Household Activities (late stage)  – In the later Household stage home care is mixed with providing guidance and more often doing the activity for the client. It includes things such as:

• calling and scheduling appointments
• running errands on for the client
• driving to doctors and taking part in the doctor’s appointment to communicate issues on clients behalf and report back to the family with doctors recommendations
• meal preparations, cleaning, laundry
• reaching things on shelves or getting things in hard to reach places (closets, basements, etc)

Wellbeing Care (late stage) – In the later wellbeing stage home care is mixed with providing guidance and more often doing the activity for the client. It includes things such as:

• ensuring medications are being taken correctly
• clients are getting exercise
• preparing foods that support their nutritional diet & feeding clients if they have difficulty or are unable to themselves
• companionship through conversation and gameplay
• conducting safety checks and eliminating common fall hazards in the home

Personal Care (late stage) – Personal care in the later stages focuses on caregivers providing some assistance as a way to keep clients sharp and but the majority of personal care activity is done for a client at this point.  It includes things such as:

• picking out clothes and/or dressing client
• bathing, brushing teeth, combing hair
• incontinence issues
• transferring from bed to chairs in the morning and back again in the evening

While the focus, frequency, and length of the visits are customized to the needs of the individual, this stage commonly requires in-home care 3-7 times a week over a 3-6 hour span.