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Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

As individuals and families plan for the future, one crucial consideration is the potential need for long-term care. Long-term care insurance has emerged as a valuable tool to ensure that individuals can access the care they need without depleting their savings.

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Mother, may I? Please, don’t ask

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

We should continue to honor their ability to not ask approval even once they enter the post-acute care spectrum. Let us love them and care for them, but not “mother” them. Provide freedom of movement and support ambulation abilities for as long as possible. Allow them to fail, to learn, and to try again. Have a column idea?

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Understanding Private Duty "Non-Medical" Care

Comforcare Home Care

Private duty care is "non-medical" long term care that provides support and different levels of care that older adults face, from the comfort and safety of their own homes (or wherever they reside). Private duty home care services can help a senior or housebound adult with: Personal care, hygiene, bathing.

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Difference Between Private Duty Care & Medicare Home Care

Comforcare Home Care

Insurance Accepted - Medicare/HMO Private Duty Long Term Care/Private Pay/VA Benefits/Worker's comp. Type of Skill - Medicare RN/PT/OT,Infusion/Wound Care Private Duty Nursing Assistants/Aides to provide Personal Care. Personal Care - Medicare Max 2 hr.

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

However, after watching a group of tiny 7-year-olds wake before the sun with smiles, joyfully clean stalls, bathe their ponies, and ride with pride, I was changing my tune to, “Girl, your horse friends are solid people.”. Their constant support for each other: “We don’t care who wins. Bathe, shovel, graze your horse, anything at all?”

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What Can I Expect From Home Care?

Comforcare Home Care

We are happy to provide assistance with non-medical private duty care including – Assistance with bathing, dressing, transferring, walking, incontinence care, medication management, hygiene, meal preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, errands, transportation, disease management, long-term care, fall prevention, respite care, and companionship.

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Home Health Care vs. Home Care: What’s the Difference

Traditions Health

Payment options include private pay and long-term care insurance. To find home care services that fit your budget, consider the duration and frequency of care and the tasks you need help with. Cost savings Home health care is more affordable than staying at a hospital or long-term care facility.