Personal Care

Hourly services or Live-in/sleep over

• Eating: assist feeding, provide nutritious meals and adequate fluids
• Bathing: assist bathing, transferring in/out tub/shower, bed-baths as needed
• Dressing / Grooming: assist dressing, glasses, hearing aides, special orthotics (i.e. braces), hair care, shaving, oral hygiene
• Ambulation: assist walking, safe use of assistive devices, range of motion and strengthening exercises
• Toileting: assist to bathroom, bedside commode, urinal, bedpan usage
• Incontinence: assist changing diapers, undergarments, pads, related skin care

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Household Tasks

• Light Housekeeping: clean and keep tidy all living areas
• Laundry: wash and change bed linens and launder personal
• Meals: cook, grocery shop, prepare food ahead for later meals

Transportation, Companionship, and Safety

• Transportation: drive and escort shopping, errands, bank, appointments
• Companionship: encourage social participation, escort on outings and to recreational events, everyday stimulating conversation, phone call assistance
• Safety: supervise in home to avoid falls, household accidents and ensure easy access to emergency contacts

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Basic Health Monitoring

• Skin: monitor for signs of breakdown, apply pressure reduction measures
• Nutrition: monitor weight, nutritional intake, adhere to dietary restrictions
• Vital Signs: take blood pressure, temperatures, pulses and report changes
• Intake / Output: encourage adequate fluids, monitor fluid intake and urine output

Medication Management

• When capable: remind to take medications and follow-up
• When forgetful: give oral medications prepared by responsible party and follow-up
• Supplies: manage supply of prescriptions to have all meds on-hand
• Teaching: instruct new medications or monitor changes in regime per plan of care, assess response, side effects, and adverse reactions

Wound and Bedsores

• Wound / Bedsore: assess wound, incision or bedsore healing, signs and symptoms of infection and evaluate response to treatment
• Teach Care: instruct wound or bedsore regime, evaluate technique, compliance
• Treatment: perform wound / bedsore care per prescribed regime, report signs and symptoms infection and progress to supervisor

Alzheimer's

• Home Safety: closely supervise for safe environment, secure area with use of monitoring alarm devices to avoid wandering
• Emotional Support: provide structured activity at appropriate cognitive level to minimize confusion

Diabetes

• Diet: prepare special prescribed diets, encourage compliance with restrictions
• Glucose Monitoring: check blood glucose per orders, report results to supervisor
• Insulin: remind insulin injections per prescribed regime, follow-up and report compliance to supervisor

Catheters: Foley Indwelling and External

• New Catheter: teach drainage bag changes and cleaning, securing tubing, trouble shooting dislodged catheters, placement, blockages, drainage amounts
• Catheter Changes: insert catheter per authorized plan of care and as needed
• Care: perform daily and as needed catheter care including emptying drainage bag, monitoring intake and output, cleaning and securing tubing and bags

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