What's home health care?

Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury.
Home health care is usually less expensive, more convenient, and just as effective as care you get in a hospital or
skilled nursing facility (SNF).
Examples of skilled home health services include:

Wound care for pressure sores or a surgical wound

Patient and caregiver education

Intravenous or nutrition therapy

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Monitoring serious illness and unstable health status

The goal of home health care is to treat an illness or injury. Home health care helps you get better, regain your
independence, and become as self-sufficient as possible.
If you get your Medicare benefits through a Medicare health plan, check with your plan to find out how it gives your
Medicare-covered home health benefits.
If you have a Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap) policy or other health insurance coverage, tell your doctor
or other health care provider so your bills get paid correctly.
If your doctor or referring health care provider decides you need home health care, they should give you a list
of agencies that serve your area. They must tell you whether their organization has a financial interest in any agency
listed.

What should I expect from my home health care?

Doctors orders are needed to start care. Once your doctor refers you for home health services,
the home health agency will schedule an appointment and come to your home to talk to you about
your needs and ask you some questions about your health.

The home health agency staff will also talk to your doctor about your care and keep your
doctor updated about your progress.

Its important that home health staff see you as often as the doctor ordered.
Examples of what the home health staff should do:

Check what youre eating and drinking.

Check your blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and breathing.

Check that youre taking your prescription and other drugs and any treatments correctly.

Ask if youre having pain.

Check your safety in the home.

Teach you about your care so you can take care of yourself.

Coordinate your care. This means they must communicate regularly with you, your doctor, and
anyone else who gives you care.

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The type of services, patients can expect from Home Health Care include but are not limited to,

Doctor Visit
Our family health doctor can conduct home visits to assess the condition of your illness, prescribe medicines and plan
home based treatment and care. As well as providing the basic medical assistance, the doctor can provide
professional counselling for medical treatment, care and nutritional requirements. Follow up visits can be arranged as
needed.

Nurse Visit
Our professionally trained, skilled and specialized nurses can conduct home visits to perform various procedures.
These brief visits of around half an hour include but are not limited to the monitoring of vital signs, insertion of an
intravenous (IV) cannula or nasogastric tube, administration of IV antibiotics, intramuscular injections, nebulizers,
stoma care, dressing changes of surgical wounds, urinary catheterization and enema. Our nurses can bring with
them, the medicines and other medical items as required

Physiotherapy
Our panel of highly trained and skilled physiotherapists can provide comprehensive physiotherapy services in the
comfort and convenience of your home. They are experts in active and passive therapies and can provide proper
counselling and patient education.

Health Care Assistants

Our professional health care assistants are trained to provide 24-hour comfort care for the home patient, assisting
patients with activities for daily living including personal hygiene care. Health Care Assistants will not be able to help
or support in any daily domestic work. Please do not make this request.

Palliative Care
Our multidisciplinary health care team provides Palliative Care (care for the terminally ill and their families) for people
with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from symptoms such as pain, physical and mental
stress. The goal is to improve the quality of life for both the patient and the family. Palliative care is provided by a team
of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals who work together with the primary care doctor and referred
specialists. Palliative care can be provided along with curative treatment. Interdisciplinary palliative care teams work
with patients and their families to clarify goals of care and provide symptom management, psycho-social and spiritual
support.

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Types of Services
Home care services are available to individuals who require intermittent or part-time skilled nursing care and/or
rehabilitation therapies.[14] The typically services available under the designated term "home care" include nursing
care, such as changing dressings, monitoring medications, providing basic daily activities like bathing, short term
rehabilitation, occupational and speech therapy.[15] Some home health providers also include non-medical homemaker
services including meal preparation, shopping, transportation, and some specific household chores.[16]
The types of services available for home care have expanded throughout the history of the United States health care
system do to continuous modernization of medical technology, particularly in the 1980s.[17] Prior to the expansion,
specialty services like intravenous antibiotics, oncology therapy, hemodialysis, parenteral and enteral nutrition and
ventilator care, were only available in the hospital setting.[18] This newly available technology has proven cost effective
and improves the quality of life, increasing independency and flexibility for patients.
Hospice care is a method of care that can be included in the home care realm, but is also available as in inpatient
service. Hospice is a cluster of comprehensive services for the terminally ill with a medically determined life
expectancy of 6 months or less.[19] Whether hospice services are performed at home or in a medical facility, the
emphasis of care are the same; pain and symptom management, which is referred to as palliation.[20]
The available home care services are provided by mix of physicians, registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses,
physical therapists, social workers, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, dietitians, home care
aides, homemaker and chore workers, companions and volunteers.[

Home care, (also referred to as domiciliary care, social care, or in-home care), is supportive care provided in
the home. Care may be provided by licensed healthcare professionals who provide medical treatment needs or by
professional caregivers who provide daily assistance to ensure the activities of daily living (ADLs) are met. In-home
medical care is often and more accurately referred to as "home health care" or formal care. Often, the
term home health care is used to distinguish it from non-medical care, custodial care, or private-duty care which
refers to assistance and services provided by persons who are not nurses, doctors, or other licensed medical
personnel. For terminally ill patients, home care may include hospice care. For patients recovering from surgery or
illness, home care may include rehabilitative therapies.[1]
Home Health services help adults, seniors, and pediatric clients who are recovering after a hospital or facility stay, or
need additional support to remain safely at home and avoid unnecessary hospitalization. These Medicare-certified
services may include short-term nursing, rehabilitative, therapeutic, and assistive home health care. This care is

provided by registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPN's), physical therapists (PTs), occupational
therapists (OTs), speech language pathologists (SLPs), home health aides (HHAs) and medical social workers
(MSWs) as a limited number of up to one hour visits, addressed primarily through the Medicare Home Health benefit.
The largest segment of Home Care consists of licensed and unlicensed non-medical personnel,
including caregivers[2] who assist the individual. Care assistants may help the individual with daily tasks such as
bathing, eating, cleaning the home and preparing meals. Caregivers work to support the needs of individuals who
require such assistance. These services help the client to stay at home versus living in a facility. Non-medical home
care is paid for by the individual or family. The term "private-duty" refers to the private pay nature of these
relationships. Home Care (non-medical) has traditionally been privately funded as opposed to Home Health Care
which is task-based and government or insurance funded.
These traditional differences in Home Care services are changing as the average age of the population has risen.
Individuals typically desire to remain independent and use Home Care services to maintain their existing lifestyle.
Government and Insurance providers are beginning to fund this level of care as an alternative to facility care. InHome Care is often a lower cost solution to long-term care facilities.